This blog is the opening the Lost words of Residential Child Care project The words that are used matter. They define our identity and meaning. They determine our practice. Residential…
Children come to RCC with life experiences that are beyond those of most of the people caring for them. They arrive considerably unsettled, often with challenges to regulate their thoughts…
Reflections on residential child care during the Covid-19 crisis - Source Link The reality of the COVID-19 global pandemic is the most significant challenge countries have faced in generations. The…
Common-sense sustainability for the future of Residential Child Care The Care Review has become distracted from its main goal. In attempting to do too many things, to appease the scatter…
#4 in the series of four. What is the role of children’s homes? Thinking about residential child care, class, race and gender In understanding anew the role and function of…
#3 in the series of four. Practice and the social context Cricket and residential child care reflect the social context of the age, So, what? Cricket clubs are no longer…
#2 in the series of four. Of teams and time Given provision meeting needs, the stabilisation stage of recovery in a residential child care placement can be rapid. That is…
#1 in the series of four. What’s the link between cricket and residential child care? English cricket and residential child care have turned towards short-termism. In cricket the one-day game…
The High Court ruled that the government’s creation of a 'VIP Lane' for preferential treatment in procurement is unlawful as it breaches the principles of open and fair competition (or…
Commissioning culture has been developed organisationally and rapidly over a decade. It has done so largely without reflection or critique of its practices from those internal to it or externally,…