The New Years Honours list (CBE Isabelle Trowler, OBE Josh MacAllister) shoud set all involved in social care thinking, and linking, regarding the continuity and scale of government's ambition. Another children's services…
In her book 'A Life of One’s Own' Marion Milner describes her attempt to “decide what [her] aim in life was … I found that I had no idea..." Given…
There are 2 reasons for this blog 1. Celebrating the great work of the group of care experienced young people assisted by Foster Wales, Connor Allen, Bryce Davies, on their…
It’s the most eagerly anticipated time of year – the finals of Strictly Come Dancing Residential Child Care requires relationships, the understanding about who does what next and why and…
One of the best gifts received this year was when we had this very good article recommended to us - and now we are recommending it to you! It’s by…
Murmuration. Winter twilight is the best time of year to see murmurations of starlings coming in to roost. We stand and stare with amazement. Starlings at sunset. It a metaphor…
Saturday 25th November saw an email from DfE pop into the Inbox. Amongst assorted other announcements regarding schools was one about Ofsted’s Five-Year Ofsted Inspection Data. In amongst this information…
The word of 2023 is 'hallucinate'. The traditional definition of ‘hallucinate’ is to seem to see, hear, feel or smell something that does not exist, and so is to act…
Residential Child Care is socially constructed. It exists in context of what is around it. In the current maelstrom it is important we are all engaged in discerning the role…
Another year and opportunity for deeper discussion of the problems of the providing of children's homes is missed in the responses to the profits analysis commissioned by the LGA, and…