Finding that sometimes the very strategies meant to help children have the opposite effect the American Enterprise Institute look behind the headlines at the public policies and cultural agendas driving…
Ask What works for whom in what circumstances and in what respects, and how. Think Complexity, location, sustainability, multiple actors and change Target Well-defined outcomes, for the right child in…
A rewriting of a song by Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, and Harry M. Woods. The rewriting is with a purpose and we had in our heads the Otis Redding soul classic. Residential…
Whenever speaking with, about, of, residential child care in 2025 the anticipatory and reciprocal resolution is to do so with empathy and sympathy. This will make it a different and…
Every year NCERCC publishes a story, poem or song for Christmas. Here’s this year’s offering: Nothing is happening People are eating special snacks People are singing and dancing People are…
Extract Nikki Giovanni (US poet) (and if ever I touched a life that life knows that I know that touching was and still is and will always be the true…
Overall – details need enhancing – who has this expertise? The Parliamentary process will need to enhance it considerably. It is unclear as to the practice and context that will…
Government is showing a lack of experience with many major decisions. It is observable with children’s social care. This is creating confusion, disbelief, dismay, despair, disengagement amongst service providers, local…
In its latest addressing of the current situation facing residential child care NCERCC creatively constructs one of the first public statements a Secretary of State for Children in a new…
Transfixing the nation with the narrow mantra of no tax rises has led to not taking the wider view of take home pay. A Federation of Small Business spokesperson interviewed…