A picture tells a thousand stories – Residential Child Care needs to.
There are 2 reasons for this blog 1. Celebrating the great work of the group of care experienced young people assisted by Foster Wales, Connor Allen, Bryce Davies, on their…
Residential Child Care’s Strictly Come Dancing moments
It’s the most eagerly anticipated time of year – the finals of Strictly Come Dancing Residential Child Care requires relationships, the understanding about who does what next and why and…
Placement Instability Through the Lens of Lived Experience: Why We Must Act Now
One of the best gifts received this year was when we had this very good article recommended to us - and now we are recommending it to you! It’s by…
Is it a bird? Is it plane? No, it’s children’s commissioning as a complex system
Murmuration. Winter twilight is the best time of year to see murmurations of starlings coming in to roost. We stand and stare with amazement. Starlings at sunset. It a metaphor…
Data regarding deprivation is important in the work to understand its effects on various placement types
Saturday 25th November saw an email from DfE pop into the Inbox. Amongst assorted other announcements regarding schools was one about Ofsted’s Five-Year Ofsted Inspection Data. In amongst this information…
The Cambridge University dictionary word of 2023 and Residential Child Care
The word of 2023 is 'hallucinate'. The traditional definition of ‘hallucinate’ is to seem to see, hear, feel or smell something that does not exist, and so is to act…
Good-enough Residential Child Care addressing the ‘ambience of unease’.
Residential Child Care is socially constructed. It exists in context of what is around it. In the current maelstrom it is important we are all engaged in discerning the role…
Residential Child Care futures – we are stuck, no closer to a solution after years of reports.
Another year and opportunity for deeper discussion of the problems of the providing of children's homes is missed in the responses to the profits analysis commissioned by the LGA, and…
Take time to know the Unknown Knowns – we have always needed them.
Innovation thinking is flawed when it doesn’t include the Unknown Knowns. Let’s think this through. Known knowns: there are things we know we know (or we think we do…). These…
Children England closure, cumulative trauma, beyond Hope and Despair, stunned wordless emotional numbness as a protection
The collective voice of the National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO) started in 1942. In 2008 Children England carried on this essential task. The task has always been…