Meet the Firs – Nell & Arthur
Meet Nell and Arthur – the first 2 characters in the graphic novel coming next week - The Firs – an everyday story of residential child care folk Meet Nell…
RCC career standards – a workforce review, curriculum, and standards is where we start from
Whatever comes out of the residential workforce review it will need to recognise that a curriculum is where we start from, creative adaptation and implementation being essential. personal and professional capacities…
Overdue: A critique of Stable Homes: Built on Love
NCERCC is applying itself to a reconsideration of government strategy. Here is an opening piece – more in-depth analysis to follow Gillian Dalley’s framework in Ideologies of Caring: Rethinking Community…
The origins and effects of the organised abandonment by government of residential child care
A first offering from the newly formed NCERCC Sociology of Residential Child Care team. The concept of organised abandonment, as articulated by Claire Neaves et al (2025), provides a powerful…
Is there a sociology of residential child care?
The NCERCC sociology of residential child care team are forming and one of their discussions has been this question. Is there a sociology of residential child care in its own…
Get involved in reviewing the draft children’s homes Career Standards for England
Sign up now as project starts in November Research in Practice has been commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to draft Career Standards for the children’s homes workforce and…
Sign up is now open for Making Participation Work online event
12th November 10-13.00 MPW Practitioners’ Community of Practice - 12th November 26 Tickets, Thursday, November 12 • 10 AM - 1 PM GMT | Eventbrite The event will bring together…
Anti-Bullying Week 2026 Break the silence: Monday 16th November to 20th November – resources
This information comes from the Anti Bullying Alliance All this available here Anti-Bullying Week 2026: Break the Silence The Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) is the official organiser of Anti-Bullying Week and…
Designing the children’s home with beauty in mind – and on to a design manifesto.
Following on from a previous blog ‘Designing the children’s home – people: place: purpose’ we want to offer an opportunity to consider something rarely included in residential child care thinking…
Designing the children’s home – people: place: purpose.
There are few references to the built environment supporting the residential child care focus, mainly research studies rather than ‘how to do it.’ The ideas in Francine Houben’s book People,…