Comments on: Corporate Parenting http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/04/29/corporate-parenting/ "We learn from our experience.....if we reflect upon our experience" John Dewey Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:27:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: David Noble http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/04/29/corporate-parenting/#comment-8007 David Noble Tue, 01 May 2007 21:18:00 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/04/29/corporate-parenting/#comment-8007 A couple of our pupils worked with peer educators from Move On (Edinburgh) to produce this powerful podcast on corporate parenting (Throughcare and Aftercare). It can be found at http://healthwellbeing.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=194989 A couple of our pupils worked with peer educators from Move On (Edinburgh) to produce this powerful podcast on corporate parenting (Throughcare and Aftercare). It can be found at http://healthwellbeing.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=194989

]]> By: Claire Sime http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/04/29/corporate-parenting/#comment-7992 Claire Sime Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:06:06 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/04/29/corporate-parenting/#comment-7992 Current national data tells us that it is actually the children within our authority who are failing to achieve. There is a category of looked after children who still live at home but have a supervision order placed on them by the children's panel, hence they are termed 'looked after'. It is these children who are falling behind and not attaining, one hypotheses is that it is because the authority can not have such a great input into their lives with them still living at home. The children who are accommodated are attaining at a higher percentage. We need to figure out what it is that we as 'corporate parents' need to do to help these children. Current national data tells us that it is actually the children within our authority who are failing to achieve. There is a category of looked after children who still live at home but have a supervision order placed on them by the children’s panel, hence they are termed ‘looked after’. It is these children who are falling behind and not attaining, one hypotheses is that it is because the authority can not have such a great input into their lives with them still living at home. The children who are accommodated are attaining at a higher percentage. We need to figure out what it is that we as ‘corporate parents’ need to do to help these children.

]]> By: David Gilmour http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/04/29/corporate-parenting/#comment-7988 David Gilmour Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:23:44 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/04/29/corporate-parenting/#comment-7988 It's good that there's recognition of the importance of joined up thinking between the different departments and agencies in an authority area, but in my experience the system is predicated on an assumption that the looked after child will remain in the care of a single authority. One potential area for improvement is in the arrangements for looked-after children moving between authorities. I found that a looked-after child who has escalated through the support structures in one authority to get specialist help, say from educational psychologists, will, on arrival in another authority, have to go back to square one and start the whole process again - with predictable educational consequences. Perhaps there could be a better way of demonstrating entitlement than that? It’s good that there’s recognition of the importance of joined up thinking between the different departments and agencies in an authority area, but in my experience the system is predicated on an assumption that the looked after child will remain in the care of a single authority.

One potential area for improvement is in the arrangements for looked-after children moving between authorities. I found that a looked-after child who has escalated through the support structures in one authority to get specialist help, say from educational psychologists, will, on arrival in another authority, have to go back to square one and start the whole process again - with predictable educational consequences. Perhaps there could be a better way of demonstrating entitlement than that?

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