In rethinking Residential Child Care there is the need to recover important conceptual thinking. The NCERCC paper Reconsidering family and group care makes a start. The Care Review must also…
It’s impossible to ask the right questions when you don’t know the answers” (Dominique Manotti Escape 2013) What is needed is sophistication not simplification. (NCERCC, repeatedly) NCERCC is sharing…
NCERCC have returned to this 2008 paper in the light of a regional task force in the West Midlands being created to move vulnerable children in children’s homes into specialist,…
There is a serious issue to be resolved. There are 7 government or parliamentary reviews that are placing demands on the small residential child care sector. Each demands intense attention…
A collaboration between the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care and the International Journal of Social Pedagogy. As England moves towards its promised to be broad Care review, ‘a review…
Over Christmas there may be a moment for us to reflect on the relationship of care work and love. This is the focus for the NCERCC review of the collaboration…
Headlines Demand has been met with a response. Looks unplanned and uncoordinated Appears to address immediate situation Size and character seem insufficient. No one dominant narrative rather there are multiple…
Knowing that small children’s homes providers have been ‘out-opening’ large providers by 3.5:1 over the last 6 months has potential to change everything we have been thinking about the setting…
This is a proposal for children in care and the professionals working with and for them in England to proactively propose what they want from a care review. Reviews such…
With new thinking in a publication with the title ‘Residentialism’ the National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care (NCERCC) has launched its new website and networks. “Residentialism is concerned…