From Coalface to Facebook ? The Child Care History Network Autumn Conference

"From Coalface to Facebook ? Using new social media and technology to record, remember and share child care experience"
takes place on November 11th, 2010, from 10.30 to 4.00 at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Conference Centre, Toddington, Gloucestershire GL54 5DQ

• What online communication networks and tools are available for children, child care
  professionals, and former children in care to record and share their experiences? What is
  being used? What is on the horizon?
• Can we, should we, and how can we, embrace the new forms of communication? What is
  gained if we do? What experiences and insights may be lost if we don't?
• Can these new media and technologies be a help for children, child care professionals,
  historians and archivists in remembering, recording, gathering and archiving child care
  experience and history - and if so, how?
• Or, is there a healthy resistance among child care professionals, former children in care and
  others to embrace these new forms of communication, which should be listened to?
• In a world of accelerating dependence on online communication and record keeping, what
  choices do we really have?
• What can we learn from projects and organisations which are already engaging with the new
  media, such as the Birmingham Children's Homes oral history project, the Care Leavers
  Association, or the "Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children" project?
• How can and how will the history, experience and practice of child care be impacted by the
  new online social networks and tools? What are the challenges? What are the opportunities?

These are the issues delegates at the conference will be considering.  Speakers will include, Gudrun Limbrick of the Birmingham Children's Homes Project, Jim Goddard from the Care Leavers Association and the University of Bradford, Simon Hammond from the University of East Anglia, Craig Fees from the Planned Environment Therapy Trust, and Charles Sharpe from goodenoughcaring.
The cost will be £75 for individuals / £90 for organisations, to include lunch, refreshments, and annual CCHN membership fees.
There is comfortable on-site accommodation for those wishing to stay the night of the 10th and/or of the 11th - please contact Joanna Jansen at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust for details,
on 01242 621200 or Trust@pettrust.org.uk.
To book a place at the conference please contact either Maureen or Joanna on 01242 621200 or Trust@pettrust.org.uk.
The Annual General Meeting of the Child Care History Network will take place at 9.30, immediately before the
conference.
For further information, please go to the Child Care History Network site at  www.cchn.org.uk/