Developing Relational Commissioning #1
From NCERCC Commissioning is a parenting and child care activity (2010) Commissioning is about enhancing the quality of life of service users and their carers by: having the vision and…
Spirit of the time – a reset for residential child care rolling back Care Review relegation
Words can catch a moment, a spirit of a time. Currently there is the word ‘reset’ as used by the government to describe discussions with the European Union regarding some…
Whatever happened to Participation? Good practice downloads and reflecting on where are you now …
Good practice – Participation – free downloads Participation : spice it up! : practical tools for engaging children and young people in planning and consultations : Shepherd, Carol, author :…
To the fullest – South East go further faster in developing needs – meeting regional care cooperatives
NCERCC strongly encourage the South East Regional Care Cooperative to take its development further and faster to overcome their recognition that “The link is sometimes weak between our statistics and…
Where are the stewards of English Residential Child Care today?
NCERCC sees that the following definition of stewardship embodies the values and actions necessary for to take responsibility for Residential Child Care, “the careful and responsible management of something entrusted…
Take 30 Minutes: Listen to this Podcast Before Implementing The Care Review and Children Wellbeing Bill
Finding that sometimes the very strategies meant to help children have the opposite effect the American Enterprise Institute look behind the headlines at the public policies and cultural agendas driving…
NCERCC New Year Resolution #3 for RCC this new year 2025 – Ask Think Target stories and science
Ask What works for whom in what circumstances and in what respects, and how. Think Complexity, location, sustainability, multiple actors and change Target Well-defined outcomes, for the right child in…
New Year Resolution #2 for RCC this new year 2025 – Try a little tenderness
A rewriting of a song by Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, and Harry M. Woods. The rewriting is with a purpose and we had in our heads the Otis Redding soul classic. Residential…
New Year Resolution #1 for RCC this new year 2025 – Empathy and Sympathy
Whenever speaking with, about, of, residential child care in 2025 the anticipatory and reciprocal resolution is to do so with empathy and sympathy. This will make it a different and…