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.
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