On reading Pioneer RCC books…
“When I think there was a day when a human hand first wrote these words, I am filled with awe”. One of the NCERCC folk read a review of Marilynne…
Practitioner action researchers needed! – a new role for thinking about thinking about children’s social care
To regenerate RCC we will need more people from more diverse voices involved than currently. We need to purposely change what we are doing, who is being involved. We need…
Some have school readiness, some achieve school readiness, no child needs school readiness thrust upon them.
Moving to the outside world and school - Home is where we start from Joining a school needs careful thinking and planning. It needs to happen when it a child…
3 P’s to Change the Pursuit of Placements to the Protection of Placements.
3 Ps? = Planning People Place – let’s explain… Daily we read ‘there are not enough placements’, ‘not enough of the right type’. Dispassionately, although the reality, it is also…
The Budget and Residential Child Care
For the children who need residential care the Budget actually undermines the factors they claim to be addressing It is a 'heads on beds' reactive spending concerned with numbers not…
Thinking about thinking about children’s social care
Thoughtlessness and thoughtfulness It is observable that the public discourse and publications of recent times have routinely been concerned with instrumental action, purely goal-oriented behaviour, often primarily with the economics…
Childhood Matters – ADCS – Head Hands and Heart for childhood and children
The ADCS report ‘Childhood Matters’ has the support of NCERCC. It provides remarkable analysis in a short document. It lays open contemporary childhood. It is a detailed deconstruction of the…
Many thanks for your positive feedback re Outsourcing analysis – here’s more.
Many thanks to everyone who has been in contact regarding our blog and analysis 2 Key Sentences from Research re Outsourcing and Children’s Social Care – NCERCC Everyone agreed with…
Location, Location, Location matters for Residential Child Care
A Lancet journal article (Why cities matter for adolescent mental health and wellbeing published: October 09, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02238-9 This blog presents an opportunity to look again at some specific aspects…
2 Key Sentences from Research re Outsourcing and Children’s Social Care
NCERCC responds to research and reports RCC sector. NCERCC is involved with policy and practice, research and theory and these inform our analysis. For a full analysis and response see…