Mapping RCC = making our maps, making our future
Who uses maps and for what purpose? Yes, they tell you where you are or where you are going? You have to be able to read a map though. Maybe…
Recognising Recognition – realising the ambition to introduce the thinking of Axel Honneth to English RCC
NCERCC has the ambition to bring the thinking of Axel Honneth to an English RCC audience. We have been looking for an introduction that we thought could best promote English…
Children’s Homes – Places of Happiness and Joy.
The sound of happiness of laughing children and grown-ups playing together drifts over the neatly trimmed hedge. As I turn the corner of the road, I can see there are…
The Gruffalo, the Chief Social Worker, the Care Review, and the missing Theory of Change
Just last week, as Isabelle Trowler was speaking to Social Work Week (an online event organised by Social Work England) England, yet more experienced people, knowledge and culture carriers said…
A professional practice benchmark for RCC supervision – the Seven-eyed model
Residential Child Care needs to set its professional practice benchmark for Supervision. NCERCC are proposing the Seven-eyed model and look forwards to discussion. Download the Seven-eyed supervision document here It…
On reading Pioneer RCC books…
“When I think there was a day when a human hand first wrote these words, I am filled with awe”. One of the NCERCC folk read a review of Marilynne…
Practitioner action researchers needed! – a new role for thinking about thinking about children’s social care
To regenerate RCC we will need more people from more diverse voices involved than currently. We need to purposely change what we are doing, who is being involved. We need…
Some have school readiness, some achieve school readiness, no child needs school readiness thrust upon them.
Moving to the outside world and school - Home is where we start from Joining a school needs careful thinking and planning. It needs to happen when it a child…
3 P’s to Change the Pursuit of Placements to the Protection of Placements.
3 Ps? = Planning People Place – let’s explain… Daily we read ‘there are not enough placements’, ‘not enough of the right type’. Dispassionately, although the reality, it is also…
The Budget and Residential Child Care
For the children who need residential care the Budget actually undermines the factors they claim to be addressing It is a 'heads on beds' reactive spending concerned with numbers not…