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…
The key strategic decision for commissioning in 2026 is choosing between a relational approach and a regional cooperative model
Comparison: The Commissioning Marketplace Relational Children's Commissioning Regional Care Cooperatives (RCCs) Core Value Trust, communication, and mutual respect between local authorities and providers. Collective buying power, economies of scale,…
Evaluation of Public Accounts Committee report: Financial sustainability of children’s care homes
An evaluation by NCERCC CHIEF (Children's Homes Information and Evidence Factchecker) NCERCC – independent experts in Residential Child Care and its planning. NCERCC – independent of governments, local authorities and…
SAVI minded Residential Child Care
Approaching each day a Residential Child Care workers needs to be packed with resilience. Every day is full of attunement, attentiveness, compassion, empathy, mindmindedness, reflection, solidarity, and lots more. These…
Picturing Belonging in Residential Child Care
We’ve come across some excellent diagrams charting belonging. We think they are good for supervision, reflection, training. A Sense of Belonging in Children’s Residential Homes: A Qualitative Exploration of Staff…
Children’s social care, especially Residential Child Care, workers need a Fair Pay agreement.
NCERCC has raised this before, but now it needs to be urgently enacted by government. The Children's Wellbeing Bill provides an ideal legislative vehicle on which to do so. A…
Memory Matters To Create a Future Invest in History in Memory
On 2 occasions recently NCERCC has been given opportunity to appreciate the importance of memory and history. Both have shown the role of historian has potential to steer the residential…
‘Star is in the East’ – the NCERCC Christmas story 2025.
People have been asking when the NCERCC Christmas story is going to arrive. Here it is! It can be downloaded HERE (because it’s longer than our previous Christmas stories). A…