Lost words of Residential Child Care – Recovery
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…
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care Reflections on residential childcare during the Covid-19 crisis
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…
Saving Residential Child Care
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…
Beyond a boundary. Learning from cricket about residential child care (4)
#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…
Beyond a boundary. Learning from cricket about residential child care (3)
#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…
Beyond a boundary. Learning from cricket about residential child care (2)
#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…
Beyond a boundary. Linking the learning from cricket to residential child care (1)
#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…
How is fair and transparent decision-making to be established and enacted for children’s social care placements?
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…
The need for containment – psychological and emotionally – in children‘s social care commissioning
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,…
Expediency crowding out strategy? Scottish or local placements? The centre cannot hold
The best interests of every child are being addressed, debated, defined, by words and deeds. In the absence of strategy there is a plethora of often contradictory proposals each its…