Residential Child Care isn’t meant to be perfect. Being ‘good-enough’ is ‘good-enough’! Group living is a creative endeavour. We co-think, co-create, co-produce every day. We aim to be cooperatively constructive.…
Following good social work practice, this NCERCC document looks at the ABCs – Antecedents, Behaviours, Consequences. It has been undertaken by NCERCC with the aim of filling in the gaps…
Introductory reading Mental Health Foundation Nutrition and mental health: obvious, yet under recognised | Mental Health Foundation Food for thought: mental health and nutrition briefing MHF-food-for-thought-mental-health-nutrition-briefing-march-2017.pdf (mentalhealth.org.uk) Nutrition and mental…
Let’s not be tribal. Let’s take time to process the Care Review “A set of national conditions for success needs to be in place before can even think about implementing…
This statement is the most important for us today. “A set of national conditions for success needs to be in place before can even think about implementing reforms” John Pearce,…
Introduction to children’s homes: a children’s social care guide to registration April 2018 Click here. Appendix A sets out the difference between Care and Support. Introduction to children’s homes Updated…
In the discussions over the Care Review or Supported Accommodation for Care as a concept to be removed from the lexicon of children’s services. But this is what has happened.…
One of them is talking, the others are listening attentively. No-one has their phone to hand. There is a quality of the room of this being the only place in…
Social Partnership is particularly common in smaller European countries which have no option but to develop strong internal coordination if they are to remain competitive in a world economy dominated…
An open letter to whom it may concern, which is all of us, in any way at all involved with Children Looked After This is no time for finger pointing,…