Dear sector colleagues Please see below a call for support in holding onto the academic boundaries of the department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex university which could be…
On the 30th January Community Care published online an article https://www.communitycare.co.uk/content/news/alternative-to-containment-for-children-at-risk-of-deprivation-of-liberty-being-developed NCERCC raised numerous concerns in the Comments section that followed. Numerous children’s social care leaders have contacted NCERCC in…
English Residential Child Care is an unsung national treasure. It is living history. It is our living heritage. ‘Living Heritage’ is the UK’s implementation of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for…
NCERCC read an article in a (kindly shared and highly recommended) weekly NAFP newsletter. The article by Catherine Lockett forms the basis for this one. Thank you Catherine and NAFP.…
English Residential Child Care is an unsung national treasure. It is living history. It is our living heritage. ‘Living Heritage’ is the UK’s implementation of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for…
The RCC sector needs to be understood as a series of responses to highest levels of social, emotional, psychological unmet need. Residential Child Care provides a diversity of services for…
It depends. It depends on what you mean by ‘the evidence’, and ‘the facts’. Is it simply what we know? And is it the last 5 years of what we…
A duet for two singers with opposing views on the children’s residential care today Verse 1 — Singer A (Public Sector Voice) We’re standing in the wreckage of a system…
We need to step back ‘from a way of acting or reacting’ and to engage in the development of the given into a question’. In doing so we can see…
Comparison: The Commissioning Marketplace Relational Children's Commissioning Regional Care Cooperatives (RCCs) Core Value Trust, communication, and mutual respect between local authorities and providers. Collective buying power, economies of scale,…