Residential Child Care Workers – you’re a Dissectologist.
We may not have known it but we are! A dissectologist is someone who does jigsaws We could use this as a way of helping people understand the residential child…
New research shows the positive generational impact of providing services with an enduring safety net
CLS | Long-term outcomes for care-experienced parents and children: Evidence of risk and resilience from two British cohort studies (ucl.ac.uk) Redrafting the words of the researcher gets us to the…
The moon is shrinking – what’s that to do with children’s homes?
NASA reports the volcanic core of the Moon is cooling and shrinking. Shrinking Moon Causing Moonquakes and Faults Near Lunar South Pole - NASA NASA reports that “as it cools,…
Do you know the most expensive word in children’s services?
This blog addresses how interest groups may include (or exclude) significant costs in an analysis to influence placement choice. Have you noticed a move towards the monetisation of language in…
Attachment and the Stages of a Placement
Children come to RCC with life experiences that are beyond those of most of the people caring for them. They arrive considerably unsettled, often with challenges to regulate their thoughts…
Appreciating Residential Child Care Workers as Attachment makers changes everything
Residential Child Care Workers are Attachment makers. Children are Attachment takers. Knowing this we need to ensure we ‘make’ so children can ‘take’. This is a root understanding of what…
£600 million funding – now is the time to make the case that a child-centred care system is more effective and efficiency than cuts and caps.
£600 million funding for local authorities is a relief for all concerned from the stress that was being faced, by local authorities of cuts and rationing, and by providers of…
Positive and significant change to the SCCIF: dialogue in inspection.
In the guidance issued 19th January 2024 Ofsted use the same wording that many leading advocates for ‘relationship regulation’ (NCERCC will be publishing on this subject in the near future)…
What is the role and task of Residential Child Care(s) today?
This question is implicit in the Ofsted report: How local authorities and children’s homes can achieve stability and permanence for children with complex needs It is a question that needs…
New Years Honours need a united response from social care
The New Years Honours list (CBE Isabelle Trowler, OBE Josh MacAllister) shoud set all involved in social care thinking, and linking, regarding the continuity and scale of government's ambition. Another children's services…