Including a new residential care blog site, social work visits, the aftermath of crime, teddy bears and an anonymous staffing …

A neutral stance is impossible for a participant observer.

Learning from the past: systems change, but do the children?

A history of the Catholic Children’s Society in Westminster

How the participation of the trainer in the practice has multiple spin-offs

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

Are the two approaches compatible?

Learning from losing power

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

A new project: watch this space to see how it emerges.

Research into adoption, fostering and residential care with surprising conclusions

People looking after children in care need to be ahead of the game.

The ignored facts about young people who were locked up

An architect’s analysis of secure care

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

The spontaneous little things make the difference, and they cannot be specified.

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

Research lessons learnt from residential child care practice

Looking on the social pedagogy profession from a Viennese point of view

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

A landmark study of children in long-term care

Including social pedagogy, respite care and work with children – the basic model

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

Life offers opportunities offered to re-interpret earlier experiences.

Multiple messages about the care of young offenders from the days of Sigmund Freud

Using the residential group to let children address their problems

Another issue of the residential care journal: here are the Contents.

The thinking behind an unusual, innovative and lastingly influential institution

The focus is residential care and boarding education.

A seminal text which makes sense of other theoretical and practice-based work

Personal experiences of the care system shaped professional thinking.

A classic observation of what made residential therapy work

Research which led to change and some unexpected findings

Including school leaving age, the public image of teenage boys, David Cameron, Baby P and the social work task, better …

Post-discharge success was shown to depend on family contact.

Including young fathers, first-born children, substance abuse and new mores, primary education, gangs, social workers, bureaucracy and UNISON, residential care …

The importance of having somewhere to belong, a place you can all home

The classic example of a self-governing community for children

An honest account of learning to run a community for young offenders by experience

The impact of the Wagner Report over the last two decades

The priorities in meeting the needs of children in care

A landmark report that set professional standards for residential child care

A holistic approach to child care and the developmental needs of staff at different levels

The historical classic about services for young offenders

An early piece of comparative research, looking at added value

The Sycamore Services system for fostering children in residential care

Listening is the start to overcoming disadvantage.

The damage of failing to reframe

The Residential Forum has given a lead.

Including leaving care, records, creating villages out of gangs, goodenoughcaring, residential care in Australia, Interconnections, electrical danger zones, teenagers and …

Children, Families and Care: Reflections on the First Sixty Years of FICE

In the course of his career, Roy has seen changes of law, provision and philosophy.

A journey of one thousand steps – an Appletree Success Story

Existing standards should be merged into a single inventory.

The Residential Forum has laid out guidelines for a positive future.

Learning about oneself through the eyes of others

The Application of the Youth Aliyah Model on a Nationwide Scale.

The challenge of learning to relate to children with autism

The ideas that motivate the Webmag