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Craig Bennett: "Outdoor learning can offer solutions to the multiple challenges that children and young people are facing.” Picture: Richard Jinman

Opinion 27 October 2020

Embrace nature to transform children’s experience of learning

Fast-track training programme Teach First attracts high-quality graduates to teach in disadvantaged areas. Picture: wavebreak3/Adobe Stock

Features 27 October 2020

Getting the lowdown on fast-track training schemes

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Features 27 October 2020

Twenty years of youth offending teams

Councils are exploring methods to reduce the number of young people placed in residential accommodation. Picture: Valerii Honcharuk/Adobe stock

Features 27 October 2020

Residential Care: Policy context

Research 27 October 2020

The Outcome of Institutional Youth Care Compared to Non-Institutional Youth Care for Children of Primary School Age and Early Adolescence: a Multi-Level Meta-Analysis

Glebe House is run as a therapeutic community for young men with needs related to sexually harmful behaviour

Research 27 October 2020

‘Why Wouldn’t You Have a Circle?’ An Evaluation of the Glebe House Circles Pilot

Research 27 October 2020

Social Pedagogical Perspectives on Fidelity to a Manual: Professional Principles and Dilemmas in Everyday Expertise

"Playful encounters" through play therapy can support practitioners’ work in meeting children’s emotional and relational needs. Picture: eric/Adobe Stock

Research 27 October 2020

Play Therapy Insights into Everyday Social Pedagogical Practice in Residential Child Care

Personal advisers help young people get the accommodation that is right for them. Picture: JJ’Studio/Adobe Stock

Features 27 October 2020

Adviser support helps a successful transition from care

Restorative approaches are well embedded in the home, meaning practitioners can work with young people to address incidents

Features 27 October 2020

Children’s home staff and agencies take restorative approach to cut offending

Inspectors were able to use digital technology to move many visits and focus groups online during the pandemic. Picture: Nattakorn/Adobe Stock

Features 27 October 2020

Inspections Clinic: Impact of the pandemic

A “neighbourhood fund” aims to test interventions that address local areas’ needs. Picture: Phil Adams

Funding 27 October 2020

Youth Endowment Fund

Mike Thompson is founder and chair, Childbase Partnership

Features 27 October 2020

Workplace engagement

Tish Feilden: “Theory is less important than the quality of relationships we build, and the trust that people need to develop in you before being open to change”

Features 27 October 2020

How I Got Here: Tish Feilden

Andrew Rome: “Local authority commissioners recognised the potential of pooling their efforts, resources, and, in theory, their purchasing power”

Other 27 October 2020

Commissioning: Heading in different directions