Other countries energy lessons for English RCC?
Opening thoughts We need some creative thinking about how, who, what, where and RCC. First we need a granular needs analysis. Not the needs typologies used in recent Ofsted report. NCERCC…
Being a Residential Child Care Worker is exhausting – evidence
You were looking for a job in which you could use all of who you are, all of your abilities, capacities, experiences, and knowledge. Someone told you when you were…
NCERCC initial response to the Children’s Commissioner report Reforming children’s homes: a policy plan of action July 2022
Institutional The term usually is applied in 2 ways – size of building and practice The evidence Children’s homes are mostly ordinary houses in ordinary streets. They are not large…
Care Review Creative writing #2 – The Principles of Famspeak
An updating of ‘The Principles of Newspeak’ in 1984 by George Orwell In this second piece of creative writing using the Care Review as its starting point ‘Eric Irwell’ many…
A political economy of Residential Child Care
“Wherever professional conviction coincides with the direction dictated by financial constraints, it always proves a powerful combination” “…justice versus welfare, ideology becomes more significant than empirical evidence” …personal or local…
The Innovation Programme and the Care Review started and ended in the wrong place
In a situation where permanent crisis and instability is normal how do you find your way through? Maybe there are readers of Greek mythology and lovers of film amongst us…
New DfE statistics – Looked after children in independent or semi-independent placements
This situation uncovered by these statistics is a significant change in understanding and requires urgent actions by government. The statistics show that the supported accommodation sector is now broadly as…
Essential for every children’s home – ‘good at finding stuff’ and imagination
When children think they have found what in fact has been prepared a home has been ‘good at finding stuff’. From a secure emotional base a child reaches out into…
A vital skill for these times is getting people to tune not turn off – how to do it.
Buzz words of the moment impossible to avoid – cooperative, collaboration, co-production. Recently NCERCC has been party to some excellent close productive partnerships recently. There are some role models, individual…
Listening to children – recovering words in the Residential Child Care vocabulary
The latest in the NCERCC series recovering words in the Residential Child Care vocabulary Understanding listening is key to providing an environment in which all children feel confident, safe and…