Take time to know the Unknown Knowns – we have always needed them.
Innovation thinking is flawed when it doesn’t include the Unknown Knowns. Let’s think this through. Known knowns: there are things we know we know (or we think we do…). These…
Children England closure, cumulative trauma, beyond Hope and Despair, stunned wordless emotional numbness as a protection
The collective voice of the National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO) started in 1942. In 2008 Children England carried on this essential task. The task has always been…
Our thinking of the funding and provision of RCC was made when we were a rich country
Residential Child Care works from providing a secure emotional base. Its provision and practice are dependent on its financial base. It cannot depend on the ‘kindness of strangers’. These the…
Stability Stability Stability – Children in Care need a Minister for Children that is crazy about them.
Stability brings opportunity to “build consistent relationships with carers, friends, and teachers. This is “what makes the biggest difference to their lives” Childrens-Commissioners-Stability-Index-2017-Overview-Document-1.3.pdf (childrenscommissioner.gov.uk) “Stable relationships are the platform on…
Developing the regulation of the new Supported Accommodation sector
NCERCC takes Supported Accommodation to be an aspect of Residential Child Care. The download addresses the practice basis for the regulation of the sector and has been informed by the…
Anticipate – expect the unexpected – 10 ways to be ‘good-enough’ in a crisis
Residential Child Care isn’t meant to be perfect. Being ‘good-enough’ is ‘good-enough’! Group living is a creative endeavour. We co-think, co-create, co-produce every day. We aim to be cooperatively constructive.…
The ABC of NEPO (and other regional frameworks) – an understanding
Following good social work practice, this NCERCC document looks at the ABCs – Antecedents, Behaviours, Consequences. It has been undertaken by NCERCC with the aim of filling in the gaps…
Food and the nutrition of of children and adolescents in residential child care
Introductory reading Mental Health Foundation Nutrition and mental health: obvious, yet under recognised | Mental Health Foundation Food for thought: mental health and nutrition briefing MHF-food-for-thought-mental-health-nutrition-briefing-march-2017.pdf (mentalhealth.org.uk) Nutrition and mental…
The cultural context of the Care Review – Barbie or Oppenheimer? Barbenheimer?
Let’s not be tribal. Let’s take time to process the Care Review “A set of national conditions for success needs to be in place before can even think about implementing…
Joined-up policy – whatever happened to that idea? Time to reframe and return.
This statement is the most important for us today. “A set of national conditions for success needs to be in place before can even think about implementing reforms” John Pearce,…