Pay A test for the Care Review will be if it recommends that Residential Child Workers should have the same pay scales and terms and conditions no matter their employer.…
Relationships have been a focus for the Care Review. It is likely they will be promoted. Child-centred. Good. It would be unsurprising if it were different. The guide to the…
For many years NCERCC has been observing that we have the smallest residential sector in history. We have analysed and written extensively about the factors that have led to the…
Chater and Loewenstein (nudge theorists) The i-Frame and the s-Frame: How Focusing on Individual-Level Solutions Has Led Behavioral Public Policy Astray Posted: 11 Mar 2022 Last revised: 30 Mar 2022…
In its welcoming the Ofsted report ‘Why do children go into children’s homes?’ in which the regulator calls for an audit of needs NCERCC explains the necessary ‘granularity ‘of data…
The Competition and Markets Authority Children’s social care market study final report, now published, reports “Low pay for staff impacts (on) recruitment and retainment in the sector. It is reported…
Moving on from ‘the ‘right child at the right time in the right place’ It’s a commonplace phrase now, the ‘right child at the right time in the right place’,…
We understand the Care Review to be developing its thinking around the ideas that the right child in the right place at the right time needs the right people delivering…
Extract: Use of Self in Residential Child Care Fiona Feilberg SIRCC For the full article In-residence-a_series-of-12-papers.pdf (celcis.org) It is often said that the best tool that a residential child care…
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…