Residential child care in practice

The Policy Press has written to us announcing the publication of Residential child care in practice Making a difference by Mark Smith, Leon Fulcher and Peter Doran. The book is about residential child care practice beginning from the standpoint that residential child care involves both children and adults sharing a common life space in which the quality of the relationships between the people involved is key. It is a very practical book which aims at being of interest and value to a worldwide range of practitioners and managers as well as to students at different academic levels. It draws on the ideas and traditions of a variety of theoretical and practical fields of thought including child and youth care and social pedagogy.

The authors of the book, all experienced practitioners and academics, are : Mark Smith, a regular contributor to the goodenoughcaring Journal, who worked for 20 years in residential homes and schools before becoming a university teacher and is now Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Edinburgh ; Dr Leon Fulcher, another contributor to the goodenoughcaring Journal, has for over 40 years practiced in, and taught, residential child care across the world and is now the Chair of the the International Child Care and Youth Care Network; Peter Doran, who recently retired as the Chief Executive Officer of a residential school in Scotland, having spent his career in residential child care and who, since his retirement, has undertaken work for The Scottish Government on the education of children with complex needs.

The book will be reviewed in the next issue of the goodenoughcaring Journal. For more information about Residential child care in practice Making a difference go to The Policy Press

This news item first appeared on Friday, February 22nd, 2013 on the home page of the goodenoughcaring Journal at goodenoughcaring.com

Supervision in the Helping Professions with Robin Shohet

On 28th February 2013 Robin Shohet is presenting a one day course Supervision in the Helping Professions at the British Psychological Society in London.

The cost of the day is £120 until 28th January 2013 and after that £135 (plus vat)

For more details go to http://www.grayrock.co.uk/product.php?xProd=73&xSec=1

This news item first appeared on the home page of goodenoughcaring.com website on Decomber 28th, 2012

Issue 12 of the goodenoughcaring Journal has arrived !

In our new issue Tracey Jarvis gives an account of her experience of being a key worker in a residential child care setting; in her article Access All Areas - a developmental perspective Janet Rich stresses the importance of assuring that care leavers have ready access to support resources; Cynthia Cross provides us with an the opportunity to consider the balance between the personal and professional in the care of children and young people; Noel Howard offers us a review ofThe Boy at the Gate, the memoirs of Danny Ellis ; a poem from Michael Mallows, The Casual Cruelty of Positive Intent considers the consequences of moral imperatives and verbal chastisement ; John Whitwell provides his reflections on the Caldecott Community following its closure ; John Stein presents a tale about the influence peers have through childhood and adulthood; Mark Smith shares his thoughts about what lies behind the contagion of moral panic that follows in the aftermath of the exposure of child abuse; Tuhinul Islam writes about the key findings of his doctoral research - a wide exploration of the experiences of young people leaving residential child care in Bangladesh; Mary Winters furnishes us with an essay which discusses her concerns about the issues relating to child care placements, ethnicity and cultural background.

The Journal can be accessed at The goodenoughcaring Journal 

The next issue will be published on June 15th, 2013.

Issue 12 of the goodenoughcaring Journal will reach a computer near you on Saturday, December 15th

The new issue carries riches from Tracey Jarvis who gives an account of her experience of being a key worker in a residential child care setting; in her article Access All Areas - a developmental perspective  Janet Rich stresses the importance of assuring that care leavers have ready access to support resources; Cynthia Cross provides us with an the opportunity to consider the balance between the personal and professional in the care of children and young people;  Noel Howard offers us a review of The Boy at the Gate, the memoirs of Danny Ellis ; a poem from  Michael Mallows, The Casual Cruelty of Positive Intent considers the consequences of moral imperatives and verbal chastisement ;  John Whitwell provides his reflections on the Caldecott Community following its closure ;  John Stein presents a tale about the influence peers have through childhood and adulthood; Mark Smith shares his thoughts about what lies behind the contagion of moral panic that follows in the aftermath of the exposure of child abuse; Tuhinul Islam writes about his doctoral research into residential child care in Bangladesh; Mary Winters furnishes us with an essay which discusses her concerns about the issues relating to child care placements, ethnicity and cultural background.
Articles by Elspeth Maitland and Jeremy Millar have been delayed by bad weather conditions and Norovirus. We are sure good health and clement weather will return and they will appear in our next issue in June, 2013.

It's almost here : you can visit the new issue 12 of the goodenoughcaring Journal on December 15th

The new issue will carry gifts from Tracey Jarvis who gives an account of her experience of being a keyworker and the painful ambivalence she feels in a residential child care setting;Janet Rich, in her comprehensive article Access All Areas - a developmental perspective stresses the importance of assuring that care leavers have ready access to support resources;Cynthia Cross in telling a moving story from her work in child care asks us to consider the sensitive and often controversial balance between the personal and professional in the care of children and young people; Noel Howard reviews The Boy at the Gate, the memoirs of Danny Ellis who spent much of his childhood at the Artane Training School in Ireland; a poem from Michael Mallows,The Casual Cruelty of Positive Intent paints a vivid and harrowing picture of the anxieties created by moral imperatives as well as verbal and physical chastisement ; John Whitwell in a succinct valediction recounts the history of the Caldecott Community which closed last year ; John Stein's tale about the influence peers have through childhood and adulthood is both moving and epiphanous;Mark Smith shares his thoughts about what lies behind the contagion of moral panic that follows in the aftermath of the exposure of child abuse; Mary Winters furnishes us with an essay which discusses her concerns about the issues relating to child care placements, ethnicity and cultural background.

Further gifts are on their way. More news of these within the next few days. Visit the goodenoughcaring Journal. on December 15th, 2012.

The new issue of the goodenoughcaring Journal arrives on its magic flying carpet at this website on December 15th.

The new issue will carry gifts from Noel Howard who offers us a review of The Boy at the Gate, the memoirs of Danny Ellis ; a poem from Michael Mallows,The Casual Cruelty of Positive Intent about the consequences of moral imperatives and verbal chastisement ; John Whitwell provides his reflections on the Caldecott Community following its closure ; Tracey Jarvis gives an account of her experience of being a key worker in a residential child care setting; in her article Janet Rich stresses the importance of assuring that care leavers have ready access to support resources: John Stein presents a tale about the influence peers have through childhood and adulthood; Cynthia Cross gives us the opportunity to consider the balance between the personal and professional in the care of children and young people, Mark Smith gives us his picture of what lies behind the contagion of moral panic that follows in the aftermath of the exposure of child abuse; Mary Winters furnishes us with an essay which discusses her concerns about the issues relating to child care placements, ethnicity and cultural background.

Further gifts are on their way from Elspeth Maitland, Jeremy Millar and maybe others. More news of these within the next few days.

This new item first appeared on the home page of the goodenoughcaring website on December 5th, 2012

Issue 12 of the goodenoughcaring Journal is on its way

Issue 12 of the goodenoughcaring Journal will be published online on December 15th, 2012. Details of the articles, essays, reviews and poems in the new issue will appear on this page within a few days on the home page of the goodenoughcaring website  


This item was first posted on the goodenoughcaring.com website on November 26th, 2012.