The experiences of children in care reflect the state’s responsibilities to them. It is remarkable that this is not the centre of the Care Review. The first act of the…
The first principle, in order to respond, is to know the definition of care being used. See NCERCC website for definition and explanation here. All of the indicators presented can…
NCERCC providing expert knowledge and participation for a consensus view so CMA and Care Review have the fullest information. Life is a problem, not a given as Paolo Friere observed.…
Prince Charles wrote a piece today in The Guardian, ‘Small farms have a huge role to play in our sustainable future' Acting on his prompting, adopting his viewpoint, and using…
The pandemic has exposed inequality and insecurity, and made us re-evaluate what is most important to us. It has also exposed that children's lives, especially those of children in care,…
What is the definition of quality we are using in planning placements for children and is it related to the task of caring for /parenting them? This is the first…
Financial bubbles are not random. There are predictable factors. An analytical framework needs to be applied to Residential Child Care to see if it complies with the causes, and potential…
In rethinking Residential Child Care there is the need to recover important conceptual thinking. The NCERCC paper Reconsidering family and group care makes a start. The Care Review must also…
It’s impossible to ask the right questions when you don’t know the answers” (Dominique Manotti Escape 2013) What is needed is sophistication not simplification. (NCERCC, repeatedly) NCERCC is sharing…
NCERCC have returned to this 2008 paper in the light of a regional task force in the West Midlands being created to move vulnerable children in children’s homes into specialist,…