Creating and sustaining safer spaces for black children in care
This blog (and download) comes with great thanks to Barnardos for their report. The aim of this blog is for Residential Child Care settings to evaluate their current and to…
Your support needed for Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex University
Dear sector colleagues Please see below a call for support in holding onto the academic boundaries of the department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex university which could be…
NCERCC received a reply regarding concerns raised re Reset DOLS alternative
On the 30th January Community Care published online an article https://www.communitycare.co.uk/content/news/alternative-to-containment-for-children-at-risk-of-deprivation-of-liberty-being-developed NCERCC raised numerous concerns in the Comments section that followed. Numerous children’s social care leaders have contacted NCERCC in…
First steps taken safeguarding English Residential Child Care with UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage
English Residential Child Care is an unsung national treasure. It is living history. It is our living heritage. ‘Living Heritage’ is the UK’s implementation of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for…
If a child speaks and nothing changes, are they truly heard?
NCERCC read an article in a (kindly shared and highly recommended) weekly NAFP newsletter. The article by Catherine Lockett forms the basis for this one. Thank you Catherine and NAFP.…
First steps taken safeguarding English Residential Child Care with UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage
English Residential Child Care is an unsung national treasure. It is living history. It is our living heritage. ‘Living Heritage’ is the UK’s implementation of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for…
The role and task of Residential Child Care today – starting a discussion and consultation
The RCC sector needs to be understood as a series of responses to highest levels of social, emotional, psychological unmet need. Residential Child Care provides a diversity of services for…
Can we depend on evidence? It depends.
It depends. It depends on what you mean by ‘the evidence’, and ‘the facts’. Is it simply what we know? And is it the last 5 years of what we…
“In the Right Place, At the Right Time” – a song of a situation – where we’re at today
A duet for two singers with opposing views on the children’s residential care today Verse 1 — Singer A (Public Sector Voice) We’re standing in the wreckage of a system…
Transforming Care and Relationship-based Commissioning
We need to step back ‘from a way of acting or reacting’ and to engage in the development of the given into a question’. In doing so we can see…