Radio broadcast on Social Pedagogy

Gabriel Eichsteller has written to us about a live stream on Radio Edutalk on April 18th, 2012. Radio Edutalk is an online resource for professionals in education. As part of their weekly features on a range of educational themes, Gabriel will be discussing social pedagogy. The title is Social pedagogy: Scottish reflections on Danish child care practice” and Gabriel will be joined by two residential child care workers from Care Visions who undertook two placements in Danish social pedagogical settings during a recent EU Leonardo Mobility project. You can listen in, ask questions and comment through Radio Edutalk’s website. You can also phone in with your reflections The 1-hour programme starts at 4.30pm on Wednesday (18th April), go to http.edutalk.cc/pages/radio-edutalk but if you miss the talk you can also access it as a podcast afterwards.

This news item appeared first on April 17th, 2012 on the home page of the goodenoughcaring website at http.www.goodenoughcaring.com

The forthcoming goodenoughcaring Journal

Issue 11 of the goodenoughcaring Journal goes online on June 15th, 2012. The principal theme of the Journal will be residential child care. Further details of the articles and their authors will appear on this page within a few days.

This news item first appeared on the home page of the goodenoughcaring website at http.www.goodenoughcaring.com on April 17th, 2012

International Child and Youth Care Network Conference in Scotland

CYC-Net, the international non-profit and public benefit organisation based in South Africa, is holding a a conference on Wednesday, March 21st 2012 at the Glynhill Hotel, Renfrew. The conference is being by the Kibble Education and Youth Care.

The organisers suggest that the conference sessions will be about sharing and discussion. There will be an opportunity to hear, share and network with over 30 internationally renowned leaders in the field.

The day's programme The Road Ahead is as follows :

Session 1: Innovations and Inspirations in Contemporary Practice : a sharing of something in child and youth care which is new, creative, supportive, perhaps even old, yet innovative in some arena of child and youth care practice.

Session 2: Innovations and Inspirations in Preparing for the Future : in this session delgates are invited to share something exciting, creative and innovative around helping young people prepare for, or face the future. It might be a specific programme, programme component or an inspiring idea.

Session 3: Innovations and Inspirations in e-learning and Education for Praxis : delegates are invited to share interesting, new, different ideas or programmes in e-learning, education, training etc. It might be an on-line learning site, a direct care working training, a mentorship learning programme. How we are helping people to learn what they need to learn in order to move towards greater competency in practice ?

Session 4: Stormy Weather Forecasts : an international panel, chaired by Andy Schneider-Munoz, will discuss their thoughts on a decade of financial turbulence for child and youth care.,

This will be followed by brief closing reflections on this day of Child and Youth Care of "innovations and inspirations."

The fee for the first day of the conference is £95. To book a place at the conference contact Carolynne Kelly on 0141 847 6609 or carolynne.kelly@kibble.org

In the evening there will be a Scottish night with traditional dancing and light supper available for booking.*

*An additional Booking fee for Wednesday evening entertainment may apply.

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Social Care Ireland's 2012 Annual Conference in Kilkenny

Social Care Ireland’s National Conference “Social Care 2012 Taking Stock” will be held on the 28th and 29th March 2012 at the Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny.

Social care in Ireland faces into an uncertain future and the conference convenors believe that there is no better time to “take stock.” The focus of the conference will be promoted by the three keynote speakers. The first of these is Sister Stan Kennedy who will address the theme, “Justice for all our Children.” Secondly, Keith White will reflect on “Returning the Gaze - Learning from History,”and in the final keynote address Damien Courtney considers “The Development of Social Care Education and Training in Ireland.”

Other speakers include Dave Williams, Jim Cantwell, Majella Mulkeen, Lavinia McLean of Cottage Home, , Helen Buggle, Aisling Byrne, Leo Gordon, Maria Kenneally, Emmet Tuite, Moira Jenkins, Deirdre Bonar, Residential managers from Fresh Start, Dr. John Digney, Noelle Fitzgerald, Cian Aherne, Andy Sheppard, Judy Doyle, Pat McGarty, David Power, Dr.Liam Leonard, Dr. Paula Kenny, Aoife Killeen, Mark Taylor, Margaret Gilmore, Dorothy Walsh, Brenda Kneafsey, Pat Bergin and Marie Claire O’Brien.

The conference always offers an opportunity for meeting and sharing with people from the three different professions represented by Social Care Ireland - practitioners, educators and managers - and this has become a welcome and postive feature of recent conferences. The 2012 conference promises to be no different.

To book a place at the conference go to http://www.socialcareireland.ie

If you need further help contact roisin@hotel-solutions.ie

This news item first appeared on the goodenoughcaring website home page at http://www.goodenoughcaring.com on February 14th, 2012.

The Mulberry Bush School and Institute of Education Seminar

The Mulberry Bush School and the Institute of Education in London are presenting a half day seminar :

"Outcomes research for the children’s care sector."

This seminar will be of interest to all professionals working to provide excellent outcomes for Looked After Children.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, February 21st, from 12- 4 pm at the Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL.

The cost is £40.00. For tickets contact Rosie Campbell at rosie@mulberrybush.org.uk or telephone 01865 300202 ext. 259

This news item first appeared on the home page of goodenoughcaring at http://www.goodenoughcaring.com on February 8th, 2012.

A Commentary for the Holistic Politico - Psychological Model(2011) - for the Solution Focussed Discussion of a Child’s Mental Health Needs and their Wellbeing within the Context of a Multi-professional Planning or Child in Need Meeting.

Dave Traxson, who is a senior educational psychologist for Worcestershire County Council has provided us this text of a seminar which he presented on January 12th, 2012 to the British Psychological Society (Division of Educational and Child Psychology) conference "Change in Mind : Changing Times" at Stratford upon Avon.

Dave believes the paper represents a radical attempt to promote solution focussed discussion at case conferences about a child's mental health needs. It is rooted in humanistic psychological principles and it is compatible with the ethos of Social Pedagogy.

Dave and his colleagues would like this model to be it widely circulated for caring professionals to use. They make notes to help formulate their hypothesis on the blank proforma and use the full version as an aide memoire for prompting areas of discussion. Initial reactions have been very positive and they are looking for further support with this shared endeavour in order to challenge the influence of the imminently arriving DSM5 from the United States of America in 2013 which will widen prescribing and would in his view result in many false positives in the mental illness for children and young people.

The text can be found by clicking on therapeutic care and social pedagogy on our title strip at the top of the page.

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Flying through an ethereal letterbox near you : issue 10 of the goodenoughcaring Journal lands on December 15th

The new issue of the goodenoughcaring Journal goes online in mid-December. In our last issue John Stein wrote about the influence of mothers and so one of the themes of this next issue is the relatively less explored territory of fatherhood and aspects of this are examined in a poem by Jan Noble and in articles by Joyce Carol Oates, Alex Russon, Mark Smith and John Stein. Marion Bennathan writes about nurture groups in schools and Cynthia Cross recollects the nature of residential child care in the 1960s and compares it with current practice. Jeremy Millar makes a personal assessment of the work and thoughts of Chris Beedell while Moira Strachan discusses the relevance of a child observation placement toward her development as a social care worker. Noel Howard has written a moving review of Danny Ellis' CD 800 Voices : the heartache and the healing. John Molloy provides a review of Richard Webster's book The Secret of Bryn Estyn Bob Forrest has provided us with part two of The Kerelaw Papers and Pat Petrie writes about the Sing Up for Looked After Children project. News of further articles will appear here within the next few days.

This news item first appeared on November 25th, 2011 on the home page of the goodenoughcaring website at http://www.goodenoughcaring.com