Why Residential Child Care Cannot Be a “Pick and Mix”
Why Residential Child Care Cannot Be a "Pick and Mix" Residential child care cannot operate like an old time high street shop's, some will remember the name, "pick and mix"…
A world away from where we are now – insight into Residential Child Care in New Zealand
New Zealand operates on a model (civic and bicultural) that completely rejects commercial, for-profit extraction in child welfare, treating the care of children as a core public and cultural responsibility…
How might Burnham Labour plan the funding of Residential Child Care?
A Burnham Labour government could finance Residential Child Care by restructuring the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) into an independent body and expanding the definition of "infrastructure" to include social care…
NCCTC Special Issue Blog
Contents We have put together some songs, some stories, and something serious Songs Name that tune! Placements for you. DOWNLOAD HERE 99 placement moves DOWNLOAD HERE More coming soon on…
NCERCC Precautionary analysis and critique of DfE Review of the Residential Child Care Workforce
A Children’s Homes Information and Evidence Factchecker document Precautionary Analysis: Critique: Recommendation of DfE Review of the Residential Child Care Workforce 1.Insufficient clarity on purpose → Recommendation: Require explicit DfE…
The Hundred Acre Wood Children’s Home
Here's a record of our 2 visits. 1. The Hundred Acre Wood children’s home consider the role of Residential Child Care - DOWNLOAD HERE The scene is the staff room…
Red Dwarf crew contribute to the current discussion around the role of English residential child care
Though in deep space the Red Dwarf crew, Dave Lister, Kryten, The Cat, and Arnold Rimmer, were keen to contribute to the current discussion around the role of English residential…
A moment that matters – the need to reset the DfE residential child care workforce review
If the purpose is wrong, the workforce will be wrong: why the DfE residential child care workforce review must be reset The Department for Education’s review of the residential child…
Care and Treatment in a planned environment
Key text – learning from our history for today’s situations There is very little we have not considered previously The following is drawn from a Key Texts written by Robert…
The Polycrisis that is Residential Child Care today.
A crisis arises when one or more fast-moving trigger events combines with slow-moving stresses to push a system out of its established equilibrium and into a volatile and harmful state…