To pay tribute to Lord Herbert Laming (19 July 1936 – 15 July 2026) is to recognise one of the most influential figures in the modern history of Residential Child…
This is your chance to be heard and to feed directly into the policy makers The review team have been keen to engage as many people so as to gain…
The Perfect Little Children’s Home? Why children’s homes are getting smaller draws together a range of expert perspectives on these developments and provides valuable insights for providers, commissioners and policy makers…
The military and political activities affect children’s social care by accelerating inflation, squeezing council budgets, and compounding the systemic challenges targeted by the Department for Education (DfE) "Home Again" vision…
The financial architecture of Regional Care Cooperatives (RCCs) operates on a hybrid funding model that transitions from central government pump-priming to local authority cost-sharing. The funding mechanism is designed to…
Please read Ubercaring #1 here– this provides the context for this lyric. Some say Gil Scott- Heron with his jazz poetry was a forerunner of rap (in that case you…
We all want ‘The right homes for the right children in the right place at the right time (indeed it was NCERCC that first used these words) This means we…
Ubercaring © article #1 The current DfE plethora of policy is not being given time for reasoned cool consideration. No space is being given to reflective, critical or alternative thinking…
This year’s ADCS President made reference to Josh MacAllister’s Jenga allusion. The actual quote is from 2021 Case for Change report is, "Our children's social care system is a 30-year-old…
To prevent policy failure during transitions, policymakers use structural frameworks designed to minimise disruptions, maintain public trust, and allow administrative systems time to adapt. Structural Transition Frameworks Phased Rollouts (Sequencing):…