Residential child care serves as a vital resource for preserving family continuity and fostering community-like support systems for children who cannot live with their birth families. Kin Research from the…
Knowing our history is important - see 2.110 below The Children's Well Being and Schools Act includes the possibility of a new type of placement under which a child can…
At a recent event NCERCC was supporting there was a discussion on a table that turned out to be multilayered (Of course! This is residential child care!) about needs of…
To know the role and function of Residential Child Care you need to know the role and function of children’s services and you need to have a definition of Care…
There is increasingly glaring misalignment of the regulatory framework regarding registration of fostering and children’s homes. The recently closed consultation Fostering for the future: improving the foster care system -…
Both demand and supply in children's social care are gravitating towards larger entities; large providers, regional care cooperatives. Both are features that have arisen without prior theorisation as to the…
This analysis applies the lens of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism to the English residential child care sector, a landscape where the privatisation of stress and the commodification and marketisation of care have…
Interesting to read a report from an organisation outside of the sector repeating things known for decades, and not addressing things unaddressed for decades. The report states the current predicament…
Recognising the reality of the value and contribution of Residential Child Care offers society While the public often "wants" visible order, strict discipline, or immediate compliance (often viewed as "good…
Vital reading for leaders and disseminating to others (With thanks and full acknowledgement to CHQ for this practical and valuable summary) Ofsted has released the 2026 update to the Social Care…