A new year, and a new beginning. For the first three years of the
webmag’s life, the Social Education Trust provided its funding,
and for much of that time it was also responsible for the management
of the webmag. The Trust decided that its role is to fund developments
rather than run them, and so the end 0f 2002 marked the end of an
era in the webmag’s history, with the Trust giving up its managerial
responsibilities and liabilities, though it is continuing to provide
some funding.
Out
with the old; in with the new. We have a new title for the magazine
- Children Webmag - and a new-look front page. We also have a new
managing organisation.
Caring for Children, a professional body which has had an interest
in the webmag from the start, has taken over the managerial responsibility.
The
webmag can still be found at the original web addresses, with the
kind agreement of the Social Education Trust, but it also has a new
address, www.childrenwebmag.com. This address will take you to a website
which includes the webmag but is also the website of Caring for Children
and links you also to the website of FICE (the Federation Internationale
des Communautes Educatives), of which CfC is the National Member organisation
for England and Wales.
The
new framework has been designed with further developments in mind,
which will be introduced as finance permits. Watch this space.
You
will find some different features within the webmag as well, but we
are also maintaining continuity, with several of the regular writers
in Children and Young People continuing to contribute to Children
Webmag.
This
month we have a special supplement on the size of residential services
for children and young people, based on papers given at a seminar
run by the York Group on 6th December at York University. The speed
of publication and the wide potential readership show the scope for
this medium for getting ideas out to a wider public. People organising
conferences and seminars about services for children and young people
are invited to take note. Children Webmag can do the same for you.
We
hope you like the new format. We hope that you will keep on reading
the webmag and recommending it. We hope that you will contribute to
it. And we wish you a happy and peaceful 2003.
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