We don’t talk about Loss anymore?
We must recover the loss of Loss from the Residential Child Care vocabulary The moment of experiencing Loss is painful. That moment can go on for a long while. Our…
NCERCC Initial Response to the Care Review
We are reading others evaluations. We continue reflecting before making any evaluation public evaluation. We responded to the Care for Change with a photograph Our initial response to the Final…
Ten Tests for the Care Review
Overall - does it make another Residential Child Care possible? People and parenting What does it have to say about the people doing the caring task, the Residential Child Care…
Care Review to point to new pay and professional status platform for Residential Child Care Workers
Pay A test for the Care Review will be if it recommends that Residential Child Workers should have the same pay scales and terms and conditions no matter their employer.…
The Care Review needs to chart the development of Relational Commissioning.
Relationships have been a focus for the Care Review. It is likely they will be promoted. Child-centred. Good. It would be unsurprising if it were different. The guide to the…
Residential Child Care today is too tall and thin – the Care Review must end ‘slender residential.’
For many years NCERCC has been observing that we have the smallest residential sector in history. We have analysed and written extensively about the factors that have led to the…
Nudge theory ‘mistaken’
Chater and Loewenstein (nudge theorists) The i-Frame and the s-Frame: How Focusing on Individual-Level Solutions Has Led Behavioral Public Policy Astray Posted: 11 Mar 2022 Last revised: 30 Mar 2022…
NCERCC call for Sufficiency to be interpreted as Specificity as basis of new needs-led child-centred strategy
In its welcoming the Ofsted report ‘Why do children go into children’s homes?’ in which the regulator calls for an audit of needs NCERCC explains the necessary ‘granularity ‘of data…
NCERCC response to CMA report re social care placements market study
The Competition and Markets Authority Children’s social care market study final report, now published, reports “Low pay for staff impacts (on) recruitment and retainment in the sector. It is reported…
Right is Wrong: Readiness is Right
Moving on from ‘the ‘right child at the right time in the right place’ It’s a commonplace phrase now, the ‘right child at the right time in the right place’,…