Children in Care in schools Regular readers will be aware that we at VisionWorks are working with a team, organised by Bath Spa University, to create awareness-raising lessons for both KS2 and KS3 about Children in Care. Informed by the young members of the BaNES In Care Council, we decided to film some of their experiences in school as a starting point for our lessons. So one weekend before Christmas the film crew of Suited and Booted shot 10 scenarios. Local schools lent us their classrooms and we spent two days surrounded by child actors, adult actors, extras, In Care Council members, parents and general dogsbody/hangers-on (me!). The In Care Council members had written their scripts; these had been superbly polished by Suited and Booted and we were ready to roll. The outcome is stunning. The combination of professional filming, tight scripts, good actors and the authenticity of the experiences make moving watching. Those youngsters who had lived the experiences were moved to see them recreated before their eyes. The next step is to write the lessons. These will be trialled in February. Watch this space! I'll let you know how it goes. Janet Grant | 
In December I happened to be teaching an adult seminar in Hong Kong and I took the opportunity to visit one of our 2011 customers, the Hong Kong International School. 
