Thinking of a children’s home staff as an orchestra. Sir Henry Wood, the founder of The Proms and a conductor, was once asked to list the essential attributes needed by…
Fair Pay terms and conditions is in the interests of children, their Residential Child Care workers and the public interest. It is also congruent with theory and practice of Residential…
NCERCC makes the case for why Fair Pay is necessary, and it is urgent to take the theory into practice for the Residential Child Care workers and the children they…
As far as NCERCC knows there has never been a Poet in Residence in England, or as we are renaming the role, a Poet Of Residence. We think, with others,…
RCC offers many opportunities to engage in thinking aloud together. It can be role modelled in supervision between supervisor and supervisee, and it can be between a child and yourself.…
Who uses maps and for what purpose? Yes, they tell you where you are or where you are going? You have to be able to read a map though. Maybe…
NCERCC has the ambition to bring the thinking of Axel Honneth to an English RCC audience. We have been looking for an introduction that we thought could best promote English…
The sound of happiness of laughing children and grown-ups playing together drifts over the neatly trimmed hedge. As I turn the corner of the road, I can see there are…
Just last week, as Isabelle Trowler was speaking to Social Work Week (an online event organised by Social Work England) England, yet more experienced people, knowledge and culture carriers said…
Residential Child Care needs to set its professional practice benchmark for Supervision. NCERCC are proposing the Seven-eyed model and look forwards to discussion. Download the Seven-eyed supervision document here It…