Residential Child Care in Practice by Mark Smith, Leon Fulcher and Peter Doran
Book Review by David Lane
A positive, realistic description of what relationships can achieve in residential care
Residential Homes for Children and Young People
by Valerie Jackson
Opportunities are few; do your homework first.
Watching from the Wings
by Helga Stefanov
A personal view of developments in international child care over nearly forty years
Open letter to Tim Loughton
by Jonathan Stanley
A whole system analysis and reform is needed for Children’s Services to use children’s homes positively.
Appletree attends Children’s Homes Event
Congratulations to Sarah on her successful nomination for “star” carer.
goodenoughcaring
by Charles Sharpe
Issue 11 of the Journal is now online at http://www.goodenoughcaring.com/JournalIndex.htm
News Views
Including the heart of residential child care, social pedagogy, a field trip to Germany, a conference in Ireland, HDJ and …
Seasons of the Sector: Reflections on a Recent Gathering of the Clans
by Stuart Hannah
What is the future for residential child care?
Petition to Re-establish NCERCC
Background information prepared to support the ICSE petition
Closing children’s homes
Digest by Robert Shaw
A research report which demonstrated children’s need for residential care
Residential Childcare – It Doesn’t Have to be For Ever
by Clair Davies
An important role as part of properly planned care programmes.
Approved Schools in The 1960 –Time for Radical Thinking
The fifth in a series on the history of the approved school service
Isabel Menzies-Lyth
by Charles Sharpe
Some observations on her life and work, and the struggle with primitive anxieties
The Twelve Supports for Residential Care
by David Lane
It’s a difficult job and it needs the right back-up.
The Child, the Family and the Young Offender
A White Paper which caused debate about ways to deal with young offenders.
goodenoughcaring.com: A message from Charles Sharpe
by Charles Sharpe
The eighth issue of the journal is now out.
Restorative Practice in Children’s Homes
by Steve Walker
Improving relationships in residential care
‘The God Squad’ by Paddy Doyle
Book Review by David Lane
A classic - frightening and moving: the inside story about institutional life in Ireland
A Professional Job?
by Kathleen Lane
An opportunity for residential child care workers to shape their profession
To Infinity and Beyond
by Kathleen Mulvey
How training can develop careers and education can open the eyes
‘The Other 23 Hours’ by Albert Trieschman, James Whittaker and Larry Brendtro
Digest by Robert Shaw
Practical advice on residential child care
‘The Loveliest Girl in the World’ by Miina Savolainen
Book Review by David Lane
How photography can empower children in residential care
Editorial : A Prejudice that Needs to be Shifted
Why are so many field social workers opposed to residential child care?
‘Spare the Child’ by David Wills
Digest by Robert Shaw
The struggle to change a traditional approved school to offer relationship-based treatment
News Views
Including the recession, generations, social workers’ attitudes to residential child care, working methods, Catholic adoption societies, bouncers and voluntary work
Time for the Phoenix
by David Lane
Residential child care workers need to make their voice heard again.
The Growth of Love : A Response
by David Lane
Why this book is really interesting - and may prove to be important
Reflections of a Has-Been: 2 : A Miscellany of Staffing Matters
by Roy Grimwood
Training, pay, working hours, risk and health and safety all affect good residential care.
Residential Child Care’s Heritage – and its Future
by Professor Roger Clough
The conflicting images of residential care for children, problems and positives
Caring in an ‘Outcomes Framework’- Init?
by Gus Greene
Trying to explain the Five Outcomes at Bluebrick
