"Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children". Final Report to the Heritage Lottery Fund Covering the period January 2010 – October 2011 (2011)

Articles

Title
Executive Summary
Contents
1.1 A Convergence of Purpose
1.2 Developing the Project Application
1.3 The Heritage Concerned and its Significance.
2.1 The Nature of the Heritage
2.2 Learning from Others
2.3 Key Decisions: Therapy? No. Research? No.
2.4 Creating a Supporting Armature
2.5 Creating a Facilitating Environment
2.6 Project Team
2.7 Project Activities
2.8 Selecting Project Communities and Recruiting Community Participants
3. PROJECT TARGETS AND ACTIVITIES 1: Table of Projected Targets and Actual Outputs
4.0 Publicity and Public Involvements
4.1 Archive "Weekends"
4.2 Assessment, Training and Advisory Events
4.3 Archival Cataloguing and Preservation, Including Digitisation
4.4 Oral History Recording and Transcription
4.5. Training for Project Team Members
4.6 Training for Volunteers
4.7 Internet Development
4.8 Visits by Former Children to a Current Community: Mulberry Bush School, June 17th, 2011
4.9 Information Plaques
4.10 Publication of Out-of-Print Texts
4.11 Performance
4.12 Project Conference: "The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting: Telling the story and sharing the experiences of residential child care"; University of Birmingham, September 16-17, 2011.
4.13 Newsletters
4.14 Final Event: September 30, 2011
5 CALIBRATING THE FULLER ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PROJECT: Paddling underneath
5.1 A Carefully Planned Backdrop of Radical Organisational Change
5.2 Disruption and Incorporation: Managing Radical Change
5.3 Owning the Space: Glad Disruptions of the Status Quo
5.4 Innovation, Building New Capacity, and the Odd Disaster: Technology as Critical Friend
5.5 Not as Expected: Archives and Cataloguing
6. ASSESSING COSTS AND TARGETS: Some Consequences of a greater than expected interest
6.1 Archive "Weekends" and ATA Events
6.2 Volunteers and Output Targets
6.3 And others
7. LEARNING AND REFLECTIONS
7.1 Relationships and Time
7.2 Archives and future opportunities for research
7.3 Project Oral Historian's Reflections. By Gemma Geldart
7.4 "Theme" Meetings: What works, What doesn't, Why? By Gemma Geldart
8. MAINTAINING AND EXTENDING THE BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT
8.1 Continuity and forward momentum
8.2 Investment in infrastructure
8.3 Maintaining and Extending Benefits in Relationship and in Partnership
8.4 Sharing what has been learned