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…
As far as NCERCC knows there has never been a Poet in Residence in England, or as we are renaming the role, a Poet Of Residence. We think, with others,…
RCC offers many opportunities to engage in thinking aloud together. It can be role modelled in supervision between supervisor and supervisee, and it can be between a child and yourself…
Who uses maps and for what purpose? Yes, they tell you where you are or where you are going? You have to be able to read a map though. Maybe…
NCERCC has the ambition to bring the thinking of Axel Honneth to an English RCC audience. We have been looking for an introduction that we thought could best promote English…
The sound of happiness of laughing children and grown-ups playing together drifts over the neatly trimmed hedge. As I turn the corner of the road, I can see there are…