Dear All,
On Thursday I was at a meeting of the National Centre for Therapeutic
Residential and Foster Care held at the Mulberry Bush School in
Oxfordshire, which agreed to form a Research Group. Yvon Guest of the
University of the West of England, who is an academic, advocate and care
leaver, agreed to chair the Group.
I've been part of a number of Research Groups where I had to work very
hard to explain and demonstrate why you would have archivists and other
information management professionals part of the discussion and
decision-making as a matter of course. This was a very different
experience; I felt I belonged, and that I had things both to give and to
learn, as a natural and obvious part of things.
The National Centre is an opt-in organisation administered through the
Mulberry Bush organisation; still very new, and developing; active; and
membership-cost-free, making it accessible even for someone like me, in
a charity archive with limited budget. The Research Group would clearly
welcome others with appropriate interests from archives and related
areas. If I knew how to emphasise that in email text I would.
The lead person for the National Centre is John Diamond, CEO of the
Mulberry Bush Organisation - [log in to unmask] -; and Yvon
Guest - [log in to unmask] - is the Chair of the new Research Group.
Further information, copied and pasted from the website:
The National Centre for Therapeutic Residential and Foster Care
Promoting Therapeutic Child Care, Social Pedagogy and Trauma Informed
Practice.
Our mission:
To create a forum for professionals and academics to share knowledge
about therapeutic residential and foster care with children and young
people in order to improve service quality and practice, and ensure
excellent outcomes.
Our aim is to achieve this by:
1. Creating a forum for sharing, discussing, disseminating and testing
models of high quality therapeutic residential and foster care.
2. The sharing and dissemination of university research on residential
and foster care and the needs of looked after children.
All the best,
Craig
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Dr. Craig Fees, RMARA
Archivist
Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre: "Archive of
the Year 2013"; "Most Impactful Archive 2012"
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