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Dear Editor

I work in a City Learning Centre in Bristol and have the responsibility of setting up projects using IT for schools in the North Bristol area.

I am hoping to run an electronic chess club as of October this year and would like groups of children from each of the world’s continents to partake. I already have a group here and one in the US ready to go and I now seek groups or classes of children from Asia, Africa, South America and Austral Asia.

There are websites through which chess can be played online and the plan would be to avoid time-zone constraints by playing cross-continental games on a one-move-a-week basis. Chess, being an international language, could form the starting point for many future world-wide projects via the Web.

I understand that the Webmag may have links with International organisations/schools and I wondered if you could suggest any that I might be able to contact with the idea?

Many thanks,

Neil Dennison

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Dear Editor

Re the poem by Kathy Winters - Sounds almost like my son who is almost 12 years old. I wrote something like this to my own cousin this morning but not in poetic form. As a mother my heart aches because as a mother you protect your child and this is something I can not fix or control. All I can do is observe while I see a going of backwards instead of forwardness. Ones call it a learning disorder right now I feel helpless in not being able to correct this condition for my son so others won't hurt and make fun of him for being different . I myself is having anger because I cannot correct this for him and need help in understanding and being patience with him all the time. How can a child appear to be doing okay then later in his years seem to be reverting backward like he is in a 3rd grade mind mentality. What has happened?

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Click here to read the poem in the March 2003 issue


Dear Editor

I am very interested in your site...I have been working to change laws and to hold social service and judges accountable for the continued reunification of abused children after they have sufficient evidence that the child is in danger. As a Crime Analyst with over 20 years law enforcement experience, I have researched hundreds of cases and found an alarming number of children returned only to suffer more abuse and in many cases death. I also adopted 3 such severely abused children and have lived their night terrors, food hoarding, rage, etc. Please check out my web page and book, BLINDERS. Also, we are launching another new website in June 2003, www.American Child.org It will detail: AmericanChild - The Injustice Files and will profile cases of child abuse from each State to raise the awareness level of child abuse to citizens. Many people are simply not aware of the epidemic level of child abuse....

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Dear Editor

I am trying to find out some information on the effects of institutionalisation on children and young adults in the UK. Specifically in relation to children with learning disabilities if possible.

I am at a loss of where to look for this as a search of likely places and the internet has produced some wierd and wonderful results to say the least!

Any help, information, or points in the right direction would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks

Lucie - you may contact the sender by clicking here


Dear Madam:

My name is Elena Sanchez and I am interesting in knowing about the reports before The Radisson Report. I knew about the Radisson Report from the web site of the webmag "Children". In this site, I found that the Last Report which explain the present situation ot the Social Pedagogy and Social Education (and the Chidcare workers) is the Radisson Report. From this Reporta I was able to read that before it, it was made the Waterhouse Report. But also, it names other: I think the first one is the Pindown Report (1991), after, The Wagner Report, Warner one, Kent (1997), Waterhouse (2000), Radisson (2001). Is this the right order?
And where I can find information about this Report? On the webmag?

Also I am interesting in the RCCI (Residential Child Care Initiative).

I hope you can help me.

Thank you very much for your kindless.

Sincerely.

Elena Sánchez Martínez - you may contact the sender by clicking here



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