Residential Child Care needs to set its professional practice benchmark for Supervision. NCERCC are proposing the Seven-eyed model and look forwards to discussion. Download the Seven-eyed supervision document here It…
“When I think there was a day when a human hand first wrote these words, I am filled with awe”. One of the NCERCC folk read a review of Marilynne…
To regenerate RCC we will need more people from more diverse voices involved than currently. We need to purposely change what we are doing, who is being involved. We need…
Moving to the outside world and school - Home is where we start from Joining a school needs careful thinking and planning. It needs to happen when it a child…
3 Ps? = Planning People Place – let’s explain… Daily we read ‘there are not enough placements’, ‘not enough of the right type’. Dispassionately, although the reality, it is also…
For the children who need residential care the Budget actually undermines the factors they claim to be addressing It is a 'heads on beds' reactive spending concerned with numbers not…
Thoughtlessness and thoughtfulness It is observable that the public discourse and publications of recent times have routinely been concerned with instrumental action, purely goal-oriented behaviour, often primarily with the economics…
The ADCS report ‘Childhood Matters’ has the support of NCERCC. It provides remarkable analysis in a short document. It lays open contemporary childhood. It is a detailed deconstruction of the…
Many thanks to everyone who has been in contact regarding our blog and analysis 2 Key Sentences from Research re Outsourcing and Children’s Social Care – NCERCC Everyone agreed with…
A Lancet journal article (Why cities matter for adolescent mental health and wellbeing published: October 09, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02238-9 This blog presents an opportunity to look again at some specific aspects…