New Website: Residential Child Care Network
Gareth Wall (United Kingdom)
A new website www.residentialchildcare.ning.com that is dedicated to networking with fellow professionals in Residential Child Care has been launched. (more…)
Eurochild invites for annual conference on monitoring child well-being
Ulrike Wisser, Brussels (EU, Belgium)
In its 6th annual conference between the 11th and 13th of November in Limasol, Cyprus, Eurochild, the European network on child and youth welfare focuses on the issue of monitoring child well-being with special attention to more quality in policy and practice. (more…)
Histoire du travail des enfants au Luxembourg
Klaus Schneider, Luxembourg
This article illustrates the development of the child and youth welfare in Luxembourg and its connection with the industrialisation in the 19th and 20th century. (more…)
Report on the International Conference “Preventive Social Work in Russia and Europe”
Olga Borodkina, Anna Smirnova and Yulia Victorova, St. Petersburg (Russia)
The Conference has been held in St. Petersburg (more…)
Working with socially endangered children in Danish day-care institutions
Kirsten Elisa Petersen, Copenhagen (Denmark)
This article is based on an ongoing PhD-project which examines the teachers’ competences and the pedagogical practice in working with socially endangered children in day-care institutions. (more…)
Survivors of the killing: child soldiers as refugees in Germany
Dima Zito, Wuppertal (Germany)
“There are things I did, that are unspeakable. People I killed come to me in the night. What gives me the power to go on living is the idea of finding a way to make up for it somehow. And maybe of finding my mother again one day.”
Statement of a former child soldier, from a therapy memo by the author
This article presents the issue of former child soldiers as refugees in Germany and the question of support for these traumatized children. (more…)
Equitable growing up in Europe: myth or reality? Great Britain
Ruth Lister, Loughborough (UK)
A few years ago researchers described the UK as ‘contender for the title of worst place in Europe to be a child’ and by extension young person (Micklewright and Stewart, 2000: 23). Last year, in the UNICEF assessment of the well-being of children and adolescents, the UK was ranked worst overall and, with the US, was in the bottom third of the rankings for 5 of the 6 dimensions reviewed (UNICEF, 2007). (more…)
