The Hundred Acre Wood Children’s Home
Here's a record of our 2 visits. 1. The Hundred Acre Wood children’s home consider the role of Residential Child Care - DOWNLOAD HERE The scene is the staff room…
Red Dwarf crew contribute to the current discussion around the role of English residential child care
Though in deep space the Red Dwarf crew, Dave Lister, Kryten, The Cat, and Arnold Rimmer, were keen to contribute to the current discussion around the role of English residential…
A moment that matters – the need to reset the DfE residential child care workforce review
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…
Care and Treatment in a planned environment
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…
The Polycrisis that is Residential Child Care today.
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…
[Reissue] Stability, continuity and felt security as active factors
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)…
Distinguishing Residential Child Care, Therapeutic Child Care, Treatment, and Trauma-informed Residential Care
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…
The found family that is a children’s home is recognised by the Minister – life long links. However there is an irony …
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,…
Foucault – Connecting the Paradox of Care to the Reset
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…
Implications – applied learning from Foucault to the Children’s Social Care Reset
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…