FROM THE EDITOR

In This Issue
a summary of this month's magazine

Editorial: The Long View
Margaret Hodge is right to look at change as a ten year programme

FICE - The President's Log : Cheap Thinking? - Professor Ewan Anderson
Another Government initiative, not properly thought through

CfC Policy : Registration
All people working with children and young people should be registered

Cuttings
A miscellany of news and comment on topical issues including the FICE Congress, running away and a big cheese....?

ARTICLES

Soapbox: Minister for Children is Perpetuating Injustices to Children - Charles Pragnell
How the investigation of abuse is getting it wrong

What is the Role of the Care Worker? - Rowan Dickman
Are we losing the holistic view of residential education and care?

You have to be Carefully Taught - Kathleen Lane
How antisocial behaviour is learnt by children

In a Cell
A moving little poem by a young person being look after

REGULAR COLUMNS

In Residence - The Story of the Mustard Seed - Dr Keith White
The importance of small beginnings

The Hesley Column - A Good Ofsted Report - Lesley Durston
A good news story

Dialogue with Ministers - Alison Linsey
Keeping Parliamentarians informed : the APPG Children has been discussing the Children Bill

Have a look at this

Care to Remember? The Great Escape - Gus Greene
Gus's memoirs talk of absconding

ROUND THE WORLD

The Dangers of Over-Regulation - David Lane
The risk that excessive quality assurance might detract from quality

FICE meets in Plovdiv
The Federal Council in Bulgaria