If the purpose is wrong, the workforce will be wrong: why the DfE residential child care workforce review must be reset The Department for Education’s review of the residential child…
Key text – learning from our history for today’s situations There is very little we have not considered previously The following is drawn from a Key Texts written by Robert…
A crisis arises when one or more fast-moving trigger events combines with slow-moving stresses to push a system out of its established equilibrium and into a volatile and harmful state…
Stability, continuity and felt security as active factors Stability, continuity and felt security as active factors – NCERCC Re:thinking Children’s Commissioning Reissued May 2026 previous issued in 2021 and 2012)…
Currently these terms are used interchangeably, and this is causing confusion. For example, it is not uncommon to hear, ‘This child needs a therapeutic placement’, this only comes with a…
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-backs-family-reunions-for-children-in-care What has been happening as standard in many children’s homes, that children stay in contact throughout the years as residential child care workers accompany them through life stages, relationships,…
This is the second of two linked documents. Background knowledge The UK government's sweeping overhauls in children's social care, delivered via the Delivering the Children's Social Care Reset strategy, the…
This is the first of two linked documents. Introducing Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, and social theorist. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power, knowledge, and…
More questions than answers As one person close to NCERCC observed of the policy document. (Thanks for capturing it so succinctly). Question #1 How is it after 80 years* we…
Following the statements by Josh MacAllister in the introduction to the policy plan many people have been contacting NCERCC to ask if we will be responding. We have had so…