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…
Our thinking of the funding and provision of RCC was made when we were a rich country
Residential Child Care works from providing a secure emotional base. Its provision and practice are dependent on its financial base. It cannot depend on the ‘kindness of strangers’. These the…
Stability Stability Stability – Children in Care need a Minister for Children that is crazy about them.
Stability brings opportunity to “build consistent relationships with carers, friends, and teachers. This is “what makes the biggest difference to their lives” Childrens-Commissioners-Stability-Index-2017-Overview-Document-1.3.pdf (childrenscommissioner.gov.uk) “Stable relationships are the platform on…