FROM THE EDITOR

In This Issue - a summary of this month's magazine

Editorial: Small World
Children face an International future

FICE - The President's Log - Professor Ewan Anderson
Blinkered thinking by the Government about residential care

CfC Policy : Physical Punishment
FICE/CfC opposes smacking and wants a ban in the Children Bill

Cuttings
A miscellany of news and comment on topical issues including guilt, allegations, language, standards and the Adoption Bill

ARTICLES

Stress Can Be Found Among the Daffodils - Charles Pragnell
Perception of stress is a comparative thing

Happy Holidays - Kathleen Lane
Misery, stress, squabbling, inadequate oversight....

Research into the Work Life of Teachers - Dr Patrick Tissington
Can you help in this research into stress and job satisfaction?

An Eight Year Old Explains God
Trying to make sense of what he's been taught

Justice - Thor Roney
Does compensation solve problems?

REGULAR COLUMNS

In Residence - Family Links - Dr Keith White
Reinforcing the experience of care

Care to Remember? Order and Discipline, OK?- Gus Greene
Learning the basics about keeping control

ROUND THE WORLD

Gap Year - Natalie Dickinson
A report on a teaching and caring placement in Ecuador, South America