Following the Care Review NCERCC calls for research into ‘Rightsizing Residential Child Care’ to avoid existential threat to one third of homes. In its response to the Care Review the…
We must recover the loss of Loss from the Residential Child Care vocabulary The moment of experiencing Loss is painful. That moment can go on for a long while. Our…
We are reading others evaluations. We continue reflecting before making any evaluation public evaluation. We responded to the Care for Change with a photograph Our initial response to the Final…
Overall - does it make another Residential Child Care possible? People and parenting What does it have to say about the people doing the caring task, the Residential Child Care…
Pay A test for the Care Review will be if it recommends that Residential Child Workers should have the same pay scales and terms and conditions no matter their employer…
Relationships have been a focus for the Care Review. It is likely they will be promoted. Child-centred. Good. It would be unsurprising if it were different. The guide to the…
For many years NCERCC has been observing that we have the smallest residential sector in history. We have analysed and written extensively about the factors that have led to the…
Chater and Loewenstein (nudge theorists) The i-Frame and the s-Frame: How Focusing on Individual-Level Solutions Has Led Behavioral Public Policy Astray Posted: 11 Mar 2022 Last revised: 30 Mar 2022…
In its welcoming the Ofsted report ‘Why do children go into children’s homes?’ in which the regulator calls for an audit of needs NCERCC explains the necessary ‘granularity ‘of data…
The Competition and Markets Authority Children’s social care market study final report, now published, reports “Low pay for staff impacts (on) recruitment and retainment in the sector. It is reported…