This
page is used for letters from readers
Please e-mail correspondence to
letters@childrenwebmag.com
|
Thanks
Gay Adoption
The National Youth Agency
Size of children's homes
Can you provide information for these students
from Belgium?
Dear
Editor
Just a quick
line to say thank you for the magazine. I have been a (silent) avid
reader for the last couple of years and really look forward to each
new issue. Not only is it informative and provides help in our workplace,
it's FREE - and that's quite something in this day and age.
Once again -
many thanks
Maureen Patterson
Glasgow
Dear Editor
My name is Viola van der Meer and I am a Dutch student,
studying this
semester at the university of Cape Town. One course I take is the
international rights of the child and I have to write a paper of 8000
words for this course. I have chosen to write my paper about gay couples
and adoption of children. In Holland it is quite common to adopt a
child
when you are a gay couple. I think everybody should have equal rights
to
adopt children and it's all about love the parents give their children,
it won't make a difference if you are gay or not. I would like to
get
some information about how far the world is in accepting and legalising
adoption for gay couples, maybe you can help me with that. Thank you
for
reading my mail.
Yours sincerely,
Viola
van der Meer
(Reply via
the webmag)
Dear
Editor
An offer I hope
your readers will consider.....
The National
Youth Agency publishes Volunteer Action once a year, with a distribution
of over 100,000. While called Volunteer Action, it really covers all
to do with youth action and children and young people's participation.
It covers children and young people's groups and projects from across
the UK. Below is the brief from the editor, Carolyn Oldfield. Most
articles are written by children and young people themselves and are
between 250-400 words long. Some are written with the help of the
adult workers. You can go to our website www.nya.org.uk and check
out the 2002 one if you like. (it's a big file, so takes a while to
open.)
If you are interested,
then you can email Carolyn by 28 February - sooner the better - carolyno@nya.org.uk,
expressing interest and giving a couple of lines about the nature
of the project. Carolyn will then be getting back to those of you
she will commission article from. This will be based on overall shape
of the journal, getting a wide range etc.
I hope to see
your work in there!
With best wishes
Bill
Bill
Badham
Development Officer
National Youth Agency
0116 285 3742
mailto:billb@nya.org.uk
Dear
Editor
Size of
children's homes type of input is also significant.
I found
this and all the articles on the size of children's homes interesting,
but though outcome is of paramount importance, it is disappointing
that so few studies have managed to come to any authoritative
conclusions about the most efficacious size for children's homes.
In my view this may be because the type of input, - i.e. the
rationale of the methods used by different children's homes to
meet the particular needs of the young people they admit - is
not being considered carefully enough, although I thought the
Dartington research project concerning the Caldecott Community
made some attempt to do this.
I am of the view that, their is no optimum size for a children's
home - each resource should be needs led - although I believe
given the current quite valid expectations of care make any number
over 10 unviable.
Charles Sharpe, Trainer and Consultant in Residential Child
Care.
ANTWERPEN
Dear
Editor
We are
second year students in Orthopedagogie at the Plantijnhogeschool.
Our teachers want us to make our own study trip abroad for the
academic year 2002-2003.
We are with seven students and our choice was to visit Oxford.
We think this is a very interesting city with a lot to offer!
Now, we
have a few tasks to fulfil and we want you to ask for help, if
possible.
- During
the trip we have to visit a high school, which also has the discipline
we follow.( orthopedagogie, social care work). Could you help
us to find some addresses?
- We also
have to make contact with institutions for persons with a handicap
or an other disability, an institution for children,&
- We have
to find the policy paper concerning the social care work, the
policy about drug, handicap,& This, we find a hard task and
its rather urgent, because we have tot deliver these to the teacher
on the 20th of December. We would like to get these as soon as
possible.
We hope
you can help us out!
With thanks
and hope of any reaction,&
Greetings
Nele,
Marijke, Kathleen, Kristien, Lieve, Caroline en Katrien
Contactadresses
:
katrienemientjen@hotmail.com
or
reisje2004@hotmail.com
