This blog addresses how interest groups may include (or exclude) significant costs in an analysis to influence placement choice. Have you noticed a move towards the monetisation of language in…
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…
Residential Child Care Workers are Attachment makers. Children are Attachment takers. Knowing this we need to ensure we ‘make’ so children can ‘take’. This is a root understanding of what…
£600 million funding for local authorities is a relief for all concerned from the stress that was being faced, by local authorities of cuts and rationing, and by providers of…
In the guidance issued 19th January 2024 Ofsted use the same wording that many leading advocates for ‘relationship regulation’ (NCERCC will be publishing on this subject in the near future)…
This question is implicit in the Ofsted report: How local authorities and children’s homes can achieve stability and permanence for children with complex needs It is a question that needs…
The New Years Honours list (CBE Isabelle Trowler, OBE Josh MacAllister) shoud set all involved in social care thinking, and linking, regarding the continuity and scale of government's ambition. Another children's services…
In her book 'A Life of One’s Own' Marion Milner describes her attempt to “decide what [her] aim in life was … I found that I had no idea..." Given…