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In the children-webmag this month we have a really mixed bag.
The Editorial picks up on a current issue - the sharp reaction by the childcare profession to the reactionary stance taken by Ministers on smacking and smoking.
Keith White questions whether the systems currently ordained through law and regulations actually enable children's needs to be met.
Terry Hoon highlights some of the issues around the predicament in which the police find themselves at present in investigating abuse in residential care.
Tim
Woodward takes an independent line to have a go at
the Government, Kathleen
Lane has reached one of the seats of power in
Europe and while Gus Greene's away on holiday in the antipodes,
Kate
Jervis has stood in to highlight a practice
issue.
Kate Jervis discusses coping with a crisis. Care planning in an emergency. In some situations it is hard to do the right thing. What would you have done?
There are also bits and pieces on bullying, secrecy, adoption and the culture of blame.
In children-international, The Editorial focuses on the need to think in the long term in planning children's lives.
There is another article in the series
describing international childcare organisations, this time by
David
Crimmens, looking at a European project
to gather children's views, sponsored by EURONET.
and Bill Stevenson looks at the Chernobyl disaster and the ongoing work with the children of the area by the charity Friends of Chernobyl's Children