The Stolen Child Charles Sharpe generously offered to review my book entitled “Social Care and Child Welfare in Ireland: Integrating Residential Care, Leaving Care and Aftercare” and his review will feature in this edition of the www.goodenoughcaring.com journal. The dedication page of the book reads: This book is dedicated to Darren Lennon and all the…
Social care practice is framed within many relationships and continuums. These include care/control, process/outcome, risk/resilience, behavioural/psychoanalytical and keeping children safe/assisting children to reach their full potential, to name but a few. For practitioners it can be enticing to follow approaches such as case management/instrumental/systems approaches, as when these approaches fail, distressing feelings for the practitioners…
Unity through Relationship Introduction The following article is based on the opening address by Maurice Fenton at the recent “Unity through Relationship” conference held in Dublin, on 10th & 11th November 2014. Maurice Fenton is currently working with the presenters from this conference in compiling an edited book of chapters based on the individual presentations….
Book Extract from ‘Social Care and Child Welfare in Ireland: Integrating Residential Care, Leaving Care and Aftercare’ To bring my chapter to a conclusion it is appropriate for me to give a brief overview of my experience of working with Keith and other young people over my…
Control within residential care for adolescents is largely an illusion, and the higher up the management ladder one goes the more illusionary it becomes. Once we accept this and cease trying to achieve control through coercion or reward we become liberated to achieve what in fact we are seeking, a healthy environment where children’s needs…
The most protective and empowering factor is social care work is, in my opinion, beyond doubt the worker themselves. Therefore, how workers make use of ‘self’ in their work is of critical importance. There are many aspects to the use of self and in this brief piece, I intend to address vicarious processes inherent…
Regional Summary – Children (Leaving Care) Act (NI) 2002
Pathways: A Guide For Young People Leaving Care ‘’Pathways ‘’ – A Guidebook For Young People Leaving Care Launched Today Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald, TD to-day launched Pathways: a guidebook for young people leaving care. EPIC, Focus Ireland and Empower Ireland came together to develop the guidebook. Through their experience…