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.

This item first appeared on the home page of the goodenoughcaring website on Saturday, December, 15th, 2012

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.