With permission of Dawn Bowden, Minister for Social Care, and Welsh Government, NCERCC are publishing their response to the NCERCC analysis and evaluation of the Health and Social Care Bill…
NCERCC, being independent experts in Residential Child Care and its planning, and independent of governments, local authorities, and providers, offers a unique position to evaluate policy proposals. The major message…
A Government update by its agency Ofsted came on the day after term finished for many schools and on one of the busiest travel days of the year. People switching…
The Children's Rights Charter. The Children’s Rights Alliance for England ( CRAE) and 90 supporting organisations are calling for the new UK Government to take urgent action on children's rights.…
The UNCRC, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) came into legal force in Scotland this week. It could and should have been in the Kings…
Dear new government, We’ve heard lots about political and economic planning. We need to hear about the planning for the country emotionally and psychologically. This is not the same as…
Does the evidenced exclusion of higher level needs of some children in care in the current election reveal they have fallen out of collective Parliamentary minds? What is to be done?…
Thinking of a children’s home staff as an orchestra. Sir Henry Wood, the founder of The Proms and a conductor, was once asked to list the essential attributes needed by…
Fair Pay terms and conditions is in the interests of children, their Residential Child Care workers and the public interest. It is also congruent with theory and practice of Residential…
NCERCC makes the case for why Fair Pay is necessary, and it is urgent to take the theory into practice for the Residential Child Care workers and the children they…