Murmuration. Winter twilight is the best time of year to see murmurations of starlings coming in to roost. We stand and stare with amazement. Starlings at sunset. It a metaphor…
Saturday 25th November saw an email from DfE pop into the Inbox. Amongst assorted other announcements regarding schools was one about Ofsted’s Five-Year Ofsted Inspection Data. In amongst this information…
The word of 2023 is 'hallucinate'. The traditional definition of ‘hallucinate’ is to seem to see, hear, feel or smell something that does not exist, and so is to act…
Residential Child Care is socially constructed. It exists in context of what is around it. In the current maelstrom it is important we are all engaged in discerning the role…
Another year and opportunity for deeper discussion of the problems of the providing of children's homes is missed in the responses to the profits analysis commissioned by the LGA, and…
Innovation thinking is flawed when it doesn’t include the Unknown Knowns. Let’s think this through. Known knowns: there are things we know we know (or we think we do…). These…
The collective voice of the National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO) started in 1942. In 2008 Children England carried on this essential task. The task has always been…
Residential Child Care works from providing a secure emotional base. Its provision and practice are dependent on its financial base. It cannot depend on the ‘kindness of strangers’. These the…
Stability brings opportunity to “build consistent relationships with carers, friends, and teachers. This is “what makes the biggest difference to their lives” Childrens-Commissioners-Stability-Index-2017-Overview-Document-1.3.pdf (childrenscommissioner.gov.uk) “Stable relationships are the platform on…
NCERCC takes Supported Accommodation to be an aspect of Residential Child Care. The download addresses the practice basis for the regulation of the sector and has been informed by the…