3 Ps? = Planning People Place – let’s explain… Daily we read ‘there are not enough placements’, ‘not enough of the right type’. Dispassionately, although the reality, it is also…
For the children who need residential care the Budget actually undermines the factors they claim to be addressing It is a 'heads on beds' reactive spending concerned with numbers not…
Thoughtlessness and thoughtfulness It is observable that the public discourse and publications of recent times have routinely been concerned with instrumental action, purely goal-oriented behaviour, often primarily with the economics…
The ADCS report ‘Childhood Matters’ has the support of NCERCC. It provides remarkable analysis in a short document. It lays open contemporary childhood. It is a detailed deconstruction of the…
Many thanks to everyone who has been in contact regarding our blog and analysis 2 Key Sentences from Research re Outsourcing and Children’s Social Care – NCERCC Everyone agreed with…
A Lancet journal article (Why cities matter for adolescent mental health and wellbeing published: October 09, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02238-9 This blog presents an opportunity to look again at some specific aspects…
NCERCC responds to research and reports RCC sector. NCERCC is involved with policy and practice, research and theory and these inform our analysis. For a full analysis and response see…
Sooner or later long-term accumulated Adverse Childhood Experiences cross the threshold for statutory intervention. In this way the loss of early intervention creates statutory intervention. By the time a child…
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…
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…