The social work/care world is full of urgent looking at ‘big’ things. Daily something happens or changes. The Care Review and the discussions about it are increasingly about the organisation,…
Our great thanks to those who have been in contact. The series of documents NCERCC has posted are receiving great support from all sectors and across the range of roles…
#5 in the series re Ofsted guidance Registering a multi-building children’s home Raising issues with the Ofsted guidance Registering a multi-building children’s home. This document is connecting people together. Knowing…
Response to CMA re interim report Specialist and generalist needs require different commissioning/procurement approaches and methodology. See also As local as possible and as specialist as necessary – rethinking high…
In a Research in Practice blog (see below) Prof Rick Hood writes: "... a 10% increase in an area’s deprivation was associated with a 62% increase in a child’s chances of…
With this report the CMA has completed the preliminary stage of the work gathering much of the available information is now in one place. It is evident there is more…
This situation where the authority of the CMA report is disputed cannot be allowed to continue. Its authority must be asserted. And quickly. It had a chance There was respect,…
We need a courageous, informed articulation of what is happening now, and the start of the thinking that can move us towards a method of effective working, both for quality…
In feedback on other NCERCC recent publications was the comment ‘Commissioning of needs-led services … hardly ever’. Here is an example, maybe shared more widely, that shows an urgent need…
The Care Review, as yet, is unbalanced with regard to procurement and commissioning in that it has only addressed one aspect of supply, independent providers, sidestepping the issue through the…