HG-08-16728
"Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children: An oral history of residential therapeutic child care c. 1930 - c. 1980"
FINAL REPORT
CONTENTS
- Origins and History of the Application
1.1 A convergence of purposeA convergence of purpose
1.1.1 The Planned Environment Therapy Trust
a. What is "planned environment therapy"?
1.1.2 The Archive and Study Centre
1.1.3 The Heritage Lottery Fund
1.2 Developing the Project Application Developing the Project Application
1.3 The Heritage Concerned and its Significance The Heritage Concerned and its Significance
2 Project Design
2.1 The Nature of the Heritage
2.3 Key Decisions: Therapy? No. Research? No.
2.4 Creating a Supporting Armature
2.4.1 Primary Stakeholders
a. The Heritage Lottery Fund
b. The Planned Environment Therapy Trust
c. The Community Groups
2.4.2 Secondary Stakeholders
a. The Project Management Group
b. The Assessment, Training and Advisory Panel
2.4.3 Consultant
2.5 Creating a Facilitating Environment
2.7.1 Archive "Weekends"
a.Timings
b. Number
c. Conduct
2.7.2 Assessment, Training and Advisory Events
2.7.3 Oral History Recording and Transcription
a. Interviewing Style
b. Transcription
c. Copyright and Use Procedure
d. Integration of transcriptionist as part of the project team
2.7.4 Archive cataloguing and preservation, including digitisation
2.7.5 Training for Staff.
2.7.6 Training for Volunteers
a. Trainings taught by the project team
b. Trainings taught by outside trainers
2.7.7 Internet Development
2.7.8 Visits to Current Communities
2.7.9 Information Plaques.
2.7.10 Publication of Out of Print Texts.
2.7.11 Performance and Workshops
2.7.12 Project Conference
2.7.13 Newsletter
2.7.14 Final Community Event
2.8 Selecting Project Communities and Recruiting Community Participants
2.8.1 Focal Communities
2.8.2 Opportune Communities
2.8.3 Community Participants
- Project Targets and Activities 2: Descriptive
4.0 Publicity and Public Involvements
4.0.1 Advertisements for project staff
4.0.2 Outside reportage
4.0.3 Outside publications
4.0.4 External websites, email groups and social networking sites
4.0.5 Open Day
4.0.6 Volunteers, researchers and other visitors
4.0.7 Publication and presentations
a. Published papers
b. Conferences
c. Presentations
4.0.8 Involvements and Participations
4.1.1 First Project Archive "Weekend": Wennington School. May 17-21, 2010
4.1.2 Bodenham Manor School: July 5-7, 2010
4.1.3 Caldecott Community: August 2 - 4, 2010
4.1.4 Red Hill School: September 17(18-19)21, 2010
4.1.5 Mulberry Bush School: November 3, 2010. An Experiment
4.1.6 Shotton Hall/Westhope Manor: November 22-24, 2010
4.1.7 Performance: March 4-6, 2011
4.1.8 Bodenham Manor: April 4-6, 2011
4.1.9 Caldecott Community: May 9-11, 2011
4.1.10 Wennington School: May 16-20, 2011
4.1.11 Westhope Manor/Shotton Hall: July 22-24, 2011
4.1.12 Caldecott Community: August 1-3, 2011
4.2 Assessment, Training and Advisory Events
4.2.1 "Place, Participation and Landscape": May 18, 2010
4.2.2 Oral history: November 5, 2010
4.2.3 "Themes": December 4, 2010
4.2.4 Project review: May 19, 2011
4.2.5 Current practice and the relevance of the project: July 25, 2011
4.2.6 Transcribing: August 4, 2011
4.2.7 "Archives, Access and Dissemination": September 5, 2011
4.2.8 "Looking Back, Looking Forward": October 19, 2011
4.3 Archival Cataloguing and Preservation, Including Digitisation
4.3.1 Accessions and Digitisation
4.3.2 Positive consequences of cataloguing and dissemination
4.4 Oral History Recording and Transcription
4.5 Training for Project Team Members
4.5.1 Data Protection Act training day.
4.5.2 CPD: "Child Care Records: Use and Access"
4.5.3 CPD: "From Coalface to Facebook?"
4.5.4 "Transcript to Script" training
4.5.5 "Lives in Focus" training
4.5.6 "Reflective Space" meetings
4.5.7 "History and the nature of therapeutic communities" training
4.6 Training for Volunteers Training for Volunteers
4.6.1 Oral history training at Trinity Catholic School
4.6.2 Digital Story trainings
4.6.3 Transcript to Script trainings
4.8 Visits by Former Children to a Current Community
4.10 Publication of Out-of-Print Texts
4.11.1 Alcester Grammar School Troupe. Alcester, Warwickshire
4.11.2 Trinity Catholic School Troupe. Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
a. Towards the Performance Archive "Weekend"
b. Working Visit to Trinity Catholic School
c. Performances
4.12.1 The conference
4.12.2 Conference brochure
4.12.3 Feedback
- 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
5.4.1 Disaster, Recovery, Advance
5.5 Not as Expected: Archives and Cataloguing
- 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
6.3.1 Performance Troupe
6.3.2 Increased stationery, materials and postage costs
6.3.3 World financial crisis and VAT
- 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
- 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
8.3.1 Building on established relationships
8.3.2 New relationships
8.4 Sharing what has been learned
- Appendices
9.1 Project Staff
9.2 Project Management and Support
9.3 "Overview": The 'constitution' for the project
9.4 Conference Programme
9.5 Longer feedback
9.5.1 Peter Farrell
9.5.2 Jenelle Clark
9.5.3 Jeremy Bore
9.6. Archive "Weekend" Participants: Demographics and Motivations
9.7 Project Brochure [separate]