Welcome to Community Care’s children’s services weblog, a daily commentary targeted at anyone who cares about children and what is being done – or not – to improve their lot in today’s society.
My name is Lauren Revans and I am a qualified journalist who joined Community Care’s news desk in 2000. After writing and editing social care news there for over five years, I became editor of 0-19, Community Care’s then sister magazine for people working with children, teenagers and families at risk of social exclusion.
Now I am back at Community Care, using my journalism skills to get behind the stories, events and decisions that affect the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children so I can bring you this weblog.
While there are still thousands of children living at the margins of our society – whether they be in care, in poverty, in custody, seeking asylum, or living with a disability, learning difficulty or mental illness (or a parent with one of these problems) – there will always be a need to scrutinise the actions of those in a position to help.
And while the Daily Mail is still allowed to publish stories like “Struggling schools swamped with asylum seekers”, “Plans to lock up young thugs”, “How handouts tempt single mothers” and “Dictators tore happy family apart”, there will always be a need for balanced, rational debate!
I hope you find my entries of interest. Please feel free to add your comments at any time.
Lauren Revans
Children’s services editor, Community Care
Comments (1)
I'm looking for help for a girl in her twenties with a learning disability. I don't like using those two words but I'm a bit tired so can't think of any others right now. I could be her grandma, so I'm no use as a fun friend and this is what she wants and needs. She works - OK. She lives with parents - OK. She is an intelligent person and has loads to say for herself when she is relaxed. She is very shy. She has friends at work - OK. All in all she has a good life. BUT there is so much more that she watches 'us' do and experiences that she really wants to experience herself with somebody else. I'm looking for a society that is run by L.D. people where we can get some real, down to earth, advice to find people who, like her, find 'us' too impatient !! I know such a society exists because I heard a radio programme on BBCR4 just recently, when some guy was disputing with Brian Rix the way MENCAP uses the word 'mental' in everything - this guy had, I think an L.D. and ran a society - this is the kind of society I'm looking for. We live in Hampshire. Any ideas?
Thank you
Posted by Caroline | November 21, 2006 9:43 PM
Posted on November 21, 2006 21:43