[Radical_childcare] Minutes of Meeitng_ Monday 22nd June 2009

[Anna Davies]

Hi everyone

Please find below minutes of last nights meeting.  It was a really productive one, with lots of new ideas and input.  

I hope you are all well

Anna

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Present:  Jon, Anna, Una, Maggie,
Molly, Alice, Laura, Elizabeth and Kelly 

 

Safer Spaces Policy

 

Una presented a Policy put together by a group called the Jura
collective.  It was decided to post this
to the list for discussion, comments and suggestions.  Ideas for inclusion were, to make it clear
that everyone is welcome to meetings, not just women.  Also, possible acceptable ways of interacting
with children in the group.

AP – Una to post Jura collective
policy to list

AP – Jon to collate ideas
and draft a provisional policy

 

Direction of the group

 

Everyone individually outlined how they felt the group could work best
and which areas they would like to focus on. 
Points included: 

A group to
     empower and facilitate parents in the movementProviding
     Childcare or helping parents/groups access childcarePolitical
     inclusion of children, not separated from meetings,  whether that be directly in meetings or
     providing ‘Radical Education’Getting a
     group of men together to provide childcare.  Learning and
     Networking about different approaches to childcareDiscussions
     of ‘What is Radical Childcare?’  and
     providing Radical Education.Creating a
     bank of people and resources for crèche work.Thinking
     about childcare outside of this movementConsultation
     of Kids in processDiscuss how
     far feminism has come with regards to childcare? And what is currently
     being done by other groups.Provide
     guidance for groups around what children need and what parents need. 

 

Climate Camp

 

With less than two months to go, we discussed what we felt we could
contribute as a group to the camp (no group has come forward to take on
childcare at the camp yet) The group felt that providing 1 or 2 ‘Kids days’ on
camp would be within our capabilities rather than a static crèche for the whole
duration of the camp.  We will submit our
suggestion to the climate camp and await a response before going forward.  Once we have heard back from CC we can begin
to callout for contributions.  Elizabeth suggested
getting in contact with those who put on some really good childrens stuff at
Drax and also ‘Earth First’.  Some
suggestions for how these days would work are as follows:

 

Making
     children’s voices heard in process – Kids consensus – Kids meetingsA parents and
     children’s meeting to discuss ‘What is Radical Childcare?’ with kids
     input.Create a camp
     notice board for kids and parents, to include suggestions and also
     coordination of mutual childcare within camp and possible guidance on
     child protectionCreate a zine
     to distribute at camp and possibly beyondUsual range
     of activities such as workshops, circus skills, clowns and facepainting.

AP –
Anna – Contact Climate Camp with an outline of what we can do

AP –
Laura – Draw together education resources and activities.

AP –
Elizabeth – To liaise with contacts involved in Drax and Earth First

 

Resources

 

Jon reported back that Larc (London Action Resource Centre) have given
the go-ahead to start storing mobile crèche resources in the basement, and also
to create a permanent toy/kids box in the main hall. 

We also discussed the idea of creating an online storage area for
resources, games and activities etc. 

AP – Jon and everyone to keep their
eyes out for contributions for this store. 
If anyone needs to get into Larc to drop anything off, Jon has keys so
please get in contact. 

 

Welfare Abolition Bill

 

Group discussed the need for some immediate action around this as it
will seriously affect those choosing to home educate.  Maybe awareness leafleting within home-ed
groups as a start.

 

AP – Laura – to find out at
what stage the bill is at currently.

 

Announcements

The parents currently occupying Lewisham Bridge
 School have been served
with an eviction order.  The eviction is
scheduled to take place on Wednesday 24th June at 10.30 AM.  They are calling for mass support to resist
the eviction and are asking as many people as possible to stay over on Tuesday
night or get there as early as possible on Wednesday morning. 

 

Time and Date of Next meeting

It was decided to roatate to a weekend day meeting next, so the meeting
will be on Sunday 12th July at 1pm, at the same place in the
playground next to ‘Pub on the Park’, London
Fields.   If anyone would be able to do
childcare, please come forward. Look forward to seeing everyone there! 



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