Regional Care Cooperative panels found in the Bayeux Tapestry?
The Bayeux tapestry exhibition has just opened and is attracting a lot of interest. It got us thinking about what happened back then and what is happening now. In this…
Supporting social workers to support Residential Child Care
Please download The start of a guide for Social Workers working with children’s homes here Why has NCERCC written this? To support good-enough parenting together From April 2027 the standards…
Designing the house as part of the team around the child
Many ‘therapeutic’ residential child care homes focus on the psychosocial environment of care. By applying the principles of trauma-informed care to the built environment, trauma-informed design has the potential to…
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…