It encompasses many other disciplines, for example social work and psychology, yet it is a distinct and detailed professional language. It provides focus and a means of sharing important information quickly as terms incorporate many different aspects.
The residential child care vocabulary is an achievement. It needs to be celebrated.
However it is under threat.
The threat is not sudden and overwhelming but slow, almost imperceptible.
It happens by decisions being taken outside of residential child care that determine its work.
It happens by terminology being changed – or lost.
In doing so we internalise a way of looking at the world which is not the way we feel we are being in the world. Losing words truncates the thinking about children and our work. It fragments experiences. It removes knowledge and by doing so removes continuity.
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