The Mulberry Bush issue of the goodenoughcaring Journal cruises ever closer towards us

 Issue 17 of the goodenoughcaring Journal arrives and disembarks from its voyage across the the ethereal very shortly.  Now well into our sight is details  become clearer and ever more  engaging.

On July 1st, 2015 the Mulberry Bush Issue of the goodenoughcaring Journal will be published online. John Diamond will introduce the Mulberry Bush articles and also provides an article Evolution and and adaptation of the Mulberry Bush to its environment 1948-2015, John Turberville explains The Mulberry Bush approach, Caryn Onions has written A multi disciplinary case study, Andy Lole considers Developing a peer review network, Dave Roberts writes about The Mulberry Bush Training and outreach team and Ray Burrows offers A MBOX outreach case study. There will also be a number of practice papers on the work of the Mulberry Bush written by students on the Mulberry Bush Foundation Degree courses in Therapeutic Work with Children and Young People. Siobain Degregorio is also writing an article about her experience of student placement at the Mulberry Bush.

We are grateful to all those involved with the Mulberry Bush Organisation for their generosity of effort in making this issue of the goodenoughcaring Journal such a special one.

Other articles in this, the 17th issue of the goodenoughcaring Journal include Maurice Fenton’sDoing the Right for Children in Care and Support Seekers, John Molloy has written The Habit of Abuse, Michael J. Marlowe offers us Building Relationships with Troubled Children: Insights from Torey Hayden, John Stein observes Experience is the Best Teacher and Charles Sharpe reviews Inequality, Poverty, Education A Political Economy of School Exclusion by Francesca Ashurst and Couze Venn and, Leading Good Care: the task, heart and art of managing social care by John Burton.

We hope you agree Issue 17 of the goodenoughcaring Journal is a very special one and is to be anticipated with eagerness.

This entry was posted in goodenoughcaring.com on June 4, 2015.

Programme for the Child Care History Network Conference, July 3rd, 2015

We have received the full programme and booking form for the Child Care History Network conference in Leeds on July 3rd, 2015. Here it is.

Children’s Homes, Past, Present and Future

Learning from the Past to Make Things Better for the future

Conference Programme

9.30      Registration with coffee

10.00.   Welcome by Dame Gillian Wagner, Patron of CCHN

10.15   Voices from care. Home from home – Different Pasts, shared Future

Ibrahim Bilal Maynard, ex Care Leaver.

10. 45   Unintended consequences

David Lane, an Independent Consultant, currently working in Northern Ireland.

11. 15   Coffee

11.30   One step forward two steps back. Evidence, economics and policy for Children’s Services.

Mark Kerr, University of Kent

12. 00   Houseparent, warden, superintendent, officer in charge, registered manager?

John Burton is an author and a campaigner for improving standards in care homes.

12.30.   Lunch

1.30     Then and now: The past in the present and future of therapeutic residential child care

Stuart Hannah is a social worker and child and adolescent psychotherapist

Richard Cross is Head of Residential and Clinical Practice for Five Rivers

2.15     No Wrong Door: Innovative planning by North Yorkshire County Council

James Cliffe, Registered Homes Manager Residential and Leaving Care Services

2.45      Developing Management for present and future care services

Nick Waggett, Operational Director, Northern School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.

Dianne Lodge, Director, Dove Adolescent Services and Chair of the Independent Children’s Homes Association

3.15        Discussion with tea.   Working together for a better future.

Enabled by  Jonathan Stanley, Principal Partner, NCERCC

4.30     Close and depart

Here is the booking form for the conference :

 Child Care History Network

Summer Conference 3rd July 2015

Venue: Hinsley Hall, 62, Headingley Lane, Leeds, LS6 2BX

Day Delegate Registration and booking form

 PERSONAL DETAILS: 

Full Name (for conference badge): _____________________________________________________

Address: ________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________

Telephone: ____________________________________ Email ______________________________

Employer or Agency : _______________________________________________________________

Your payment includes coffee on arrival, morning coffee and biscuits, a two course Buffet Lunch, with vegetarian options and afternoon tea and cakes.

CCHN Member                                                      £60   Please tick if applicable Non – Member                                                       £80   Please tick if applicable

 How to pay:

By cheque made payable to CCHN and sent with this form to:

Joan Vickers c/o PETT Study Centre, Church Lane, Toddington, Nr. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL4 5DQ.

or

By Credit card, or Pay Pal go to the CCHN website. www.cchn.org.uk Conference Page

A small number of bursaries may be available. To apply contact the Chair of CCHN, Kathleen Lane at post@kathleenlane.org

 Please note to book overnight accommodation contact Hinsley Hall on 0113 261 8000 

A number of single and twin rooms may be available for B and B. To get the special conference rate mention the Child Care History Network (CCHN) when requesting a booking. Dinner on 2ndJuly can also be requested.

This entry was first posted in goodenoughcaring.com on June 3, 2015.

Shipping News : Issue 17 of the goodenoughcaring Journal draws ever closer

The forthcoming issue of the goodenoughcaring Journal may just still be over the horizon but our trusty ship-to-ship semaphore relays to us that our craft is approaching shore steadily with a prospective mooring date of  July 1st, 2015.

The principal cargo of this voyage will be provided by the Mulberry Bush School and by others, like Siobain Degregorio, who have had connections with it. The hold will also contain goods from Maurice Fenton, Michael J. Marlowe, John Molloy, John Stein, Bethlehem Taylor, Charles Sharpe and others. Watch this page for further news.

This entry was first posted in goodenoughcaring.com on May 25, 2015

SIRCC National Conference, Glasgow : Steps to Success: Supporting quality transitions through and beyond residential child care

The Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care is holding its 2015 national conference on June 9th and 10th at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow. The theme of the conference is Steps to Success: Supporting quality transitions through and beyond residential child care. This seems timely given that in January 2015 the Scottish Government in announced increased rights and support for young people leaving care.

It is intended that the conference will take delegates through the challenges of transitions for looked after children and young people.

Explore the range of workshops here

Find out about the speakers

Book a place online

This entry was first posted at goodenoughcaring.com on May 15, 2015

The Child Care History Network Conference, July 3rd, 2015 – Children’s Homes: Learning from the Past to Make Things Better for the Future

 The Child Care History Network has announced its forthcoming conference Children’s homes: learning from the past to make things better for the future.

The conference will take place on Friday, July 3rd, 2015, from 9.30 am to 5.00pm  at Hinsley Hall, 62 Headingley Lane, Leeds LS6 2BX

Confirmed speakers and participants in a day designed for sharing experience and discussion are:

Dame Gillian Wagner, who will welcome delegates to the conference, David Lane; John Burton; Dr. Keith White; Five Rivers Child Care; The North Yorkshire team from the No Wrong Door Project; Dove Care Services; NSCAP; Dr. Mark Kerr, University of Kent; Jonathan Stanley; and more, to be confirmed.

Conference fees: £60 CCHN members / £80 non-members

This includes coffee on arrival, morning coffee and biscuits, a two course buffet lunch, with vegetarian options and afternoon tea and cakes.

To secure a place:

Please send a cheque made payable to CCHN with the accompanying form (download the form here) to:

Joan Vickers c/o  P.E.T.T., Barns Centre, Church Lane, Toddington, Nr. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL4 5DQ

Or, to pay securely online, please select one of the options in the drop-down menu below. If you would like to join CCHN first, to take advantage of the lower fee on this and future events, please GO HERE.

This news item first appeared on the goodenoughcaring.com home page on April, 9th, 2015

No. 17 of the goodenoughcaring Journal – The Mulberry Bush Issue – goes online on July 1st, 2015.

On July 1st , 2015,   Issue 17 of the goodenoughcaring Journal will be published online. The core theme of our next issue is the work of the Mulberry Bush Organisation.

Founded as the Mulberry Bush School in 1948 by the child psychotherapist, Barbara Dockar-Drysdale, with support of the paediatrician and psychoanalyst, D.W. Winnicott, the Mulberry Bush has, throughout its history, offered therapeutic care, support and education to children. In recent decades the Mulberry Bush has diversified its services and provides therapeutic care and support to smaller groups and it has also developed as a centre for professional training in therapeutic care and education. The essays and articles about the Mulberry Bush will be written by people working there and by people who are or have been associated with it.

Other articles about childhood and child care matters will appear in this issue, as well as reviews of recent publications.

Further details about this Issue 17 will appear on this page during the coming weeks.

This item first appeared on the www.goodenoughcaring.com home page on March 31st, 2015

Research request about ‘negative mothering’

Michelle Linger, the Director of St Michael’s Child and Youth Centre, in Plumstead, Cape Town, South Africa, has sent us the following request. 

I was just enquiring if anybody has done any extensive research on the impact of either the complete lack of mothering on young girls or “negative mothering” on young girls. I am the director of a facility for young girls aged 13yrs to 18yrs and before this appointment spent many years in the field of child and youth care and have noticed the impact that mothers have on their daughters.This said I am concerned that we are perhaps not doing enough with regards to this issue to safeguard young girls who grow up in care and are therefore never really mothered correctly and I have come to the conclusion that you cannot mother yourself or anybody else that you might bring into this world if you haven’t been mothered yourself.

Michelle can be contacted at director@stmikesct.org.za

This news item was first published on the goodenoughcaring.com home page on January 6th, 2015.