NCERCC Practice Guide “Talking Together”
Inspiration is everywhere. NCERCC were listening to the programme Word of Mouth on Radio 4 with Michael Rosen, the more than children’s author, and Anna Sutter, a phonologist from Reading…
Learning from NATS for RCCs – I’m children’s commissioning – fly me?
The massive NATS air traffic control system breakdown serves as a powerful cautionary tale for the rollout of Regional Care Cooperatives (RCCs) in children's social care. RCCs pool multiple local…
Being transformative – we need to move from your model of care to your theory of change.
Most providers/homes will be able to answer, ‘What is your model of care’? They wear it as a badge of what we do. They can tell you. Much more incisive…
It’s not about the rabbit
Recall – see also - Attachment and the Stages of a Placement – NCERCC Keep in mind it takes time for a new rabbit to adjust to everyone and everything…
Who owns Residential Child Care?
This NCERCC enquiry is pertinent to the current government policy projects Regional care co-operatives Workforce development review Who has the authority to take decisions regarding Residential Child Care? In all…
Is this the prospectus for a Burnham government and Residential Child Care?
Here is how the ideas of Andy Burnham held before being Prime Minister could assist Residential Child Care How might Burnham Labour plan the funding of Residential Child Care? –…
Government Child Poverty Strategy weak on the causes of care
Better knowledge about how poverty and abuse and neglect affect children of different ages, backgrounds, and particularly children with disabilities is vital. Prof Paul Bywaters The Government’s Child Poverty Strategy…
Ofsted transparency data extracts: Regulatory activity of providers between April 2035 and March 2026
Ofsted transparency data (extracts) Regulatory activity of providers between April 2035 and March 2026 Registered managers As at 31 March 2026, 970 (20%) children’s homes in England that were active…
A Burnham repurposing of Residential Child Care requires the relational reimagining of regional care cooperatives – and so much more
Shifting English Residential Child Care from a technocratic, market-driven procurement model to an ecosystem anchored in relational governance and community power, English residential child care development planning must undergo structural…
Punk Residential Child Care: Reclaiming Practice, Power, and Possibility
This blog is not about the music or the fashion, it is about the philosophy and the practice. (Punk music is 50 years old this year. 8,000 tickets were sold…