Care Review – the risks of too much too quick
The Care Review experts group advised steady change, as would be expected in previous times by a Conservative government. Systems change is best achieved when small scale, incremental, targeted. Better…
Regional Care Co-operatives are not the future of children’s commissioning
How do we understand Commissioning? How do we know when it is happening? How do we assess its significance? If children’s commissioning is not social engineering, then what is it?…
Proposed DfE standards for Supported Accommodation inherently unsafe
There is no flexibility provided by these standards, an ambition declared in the proposals, that is not possible under the existing regulations for children’s homes. The children’s homes regulations should…
Care Review failing to provide Resilience for Residential Child Care
There is a high demand for residential resources. High level complex needs require an equivalent response. We need opportunity to discuss the Care Review inclination towards the resilience of the…
Care Review absence of critique has brought collaboration not consensus (+ Power Point download)
There has been no opportunity for consideration of the Care Review proposals. Closely managed communication and crafted responses have been the hallmark of the Care Review. There is an absence…
Constancy – a Residential Child Care reflection on the Queen
In this reflection NCERCC seeks to find explores connections with a life lived with meaning and purpose. We heard it in a eulogy, amongst other words. Constancy was repeated. It…
What year was this written? What characterises an efficient market for children’s homes?
Was it this year? Last year? Year before? The answer is at foot of this blog What characterises an efficient market for children’s homes? A well-functioning, efficient market has the…
Yesterday in Parliament 7th September 2022 – Children’s Services question to Prime Minister
Helen Hayes Labour Party MP for Dulwich and West Norwood Shadow Minister for Children and Early Years Question 11: The Prime Minister has been part of a Government who for…
Is family based care better than Residential Child Care?
A cultural review about our thinking regarding Residential Child Care options for children is necessary. We have the potential to reconsider the idea of family and parenting as possible for…
Saying what we mean.
Open transparent communication is speaking clearly, saying what you mean, isn’t it? Language is what we are thinking. What we think directs what we do. We create our reality. We…