Laura provides an insight into what life feels like to live in care, leave care, and seek love and support. “The care system is suported to provide a subsititute for family life, but love is not part of the deal”
Our research looked at social pedagogy, an approach to working with people which has relationships at its heart…
2014 was a significant year for Tremanna Children’s Home. One young person’s placement broke down after four years, affecting everyone. A structured debrief was undertaken… Read More »Developing a therapeutic model to suit the needs of young people and staff in a residential setting
Boundaries are often seen as lines separating the personal and professional lives of workers. But it is not clear that strict separations of the personal and the professional fit well with the intimacy of the task…
It has recently been argued that the relationships with people who care for and about children are the golden thread in children’s lives…
Positive relationships should transcend role, setting and boundary, continuing into adulthood if and as required.
We were recently made aware of an interesting new job role at Participle which is based on the power of building and maintaining relationships. This… Read More »Interesting new job role based on building and maintaining relationships
A year past Christmas my partner received a Facebook message, asking if she had worked in a residential school way back in the mid 80’s…
Between 2014-’15 the Innovation and Improvement programme ran a project called Relationships Matter which: Raised awareness about evidence that indicates how relationships are positively supported… Read More »To summarise what we have acheived between 2014 -’15…
At the end of the JAM we all came together to share our thoughts about the day and supporting and continuing relationship with young people… Read More »People’s reflections of the JAM