O.M.G. in RCC – Opportunity led working
NCERCC believes in publicly promoting practice for free. NCERCC has never accepted that practice is the property of anyone. ‘Opportunity led working’ is the first in a 3-part series addressing…
No one can say they didn’t know … Maintaining trust and relationships (Pt III)
For the past ten years and more NCERCC, often with a small number of notable consistent others, has been researching, analysing, explaining the ownership pattern (and comparative costs) of children’s…
No one can say they didn’t know … the commissioning of Hope (Part II)
For the past ten years and more NCERCC, often with a small number of notable consistent others, has been researching, analysing, explaining the ownership pattern (and comparative costs) of children’s…
No one can say they didn’t know … ownership of children’s care placements.
The government publication of statistics of the ownership of children’s homes reports the current position. Largest national providers of private and voluntary social care (March 2021) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) The…
As local as possible and as specialist as necessary – rethinking high level social care needs provision
This document considers a reconfiguration possible with a recognition and realisation of high level needs as a conceptual framework in social care placements. It re-configures the recent DfE publication regarding…
Stability, continuity and felt security as active factors
Re:thinking Children’s Commissioning Reissued July 2021 (first issue 2012) Research review Stability, continuity and felt security as active factors Findings from the research review – the evidence in summary Click…
Placement at distance from home – Sophistication not simplification
Re:thinking Children’s Commissioning Reissued July 2021 (first issued 2012) Research review: Placement at distance from home - Sophistication not simplification And did you get what You wanted from this life, even…
The role and task of Residential Child Care – there is no such thing as a ‘children’s home’ only children’s homes
This is raised as an area for focus in the Case for Change. NCERCC has continuously provided material addressing this question. What is immediately apparent in the diagram below is…
Education Select Committee Comment
Children’s homes inquiry latest - the Education Select Committee has to stick with evidence, stay with evidence, challenge evidence about children’s homes When the committee was provided with robust evidence…
Re:thinking children’s social work/care funding – MMT and RCC and the questions the Care Review is actually asking
Why do ‘we’ keep forgetting what money is and how it works? Money should be understood as a ‘constitutional project’ (Desan 2014). The idea of money and how it used…