Government thinking the Care Review now Children’s Wellbeing Bill took into account all that was made available to them, there are serious gaps in thinking and evidence, and hence in…
"The only correct response to new information is curiosity, anything else is about you" Naomi Stadlen The following collated from the ddp network With curiosity we are trying to show…
Some of us at NCERCC have been catching up with things needing to be written or read, there always a lot of reading to be done. NCERCC partners aim to…
(The introduction is to be found in Insight #1 here.) What can be done by each home? Here's a way of reframing from a trauma informed perspective: Be productive: Go…
NCERCC summers are always spent industriously. This one is proving remarkably productive. It's proving a season of surprising new insights. Not having the daily involvement in a home we see…
A response to the Education Select Committee report re government proposed legislation regarding children in care (Children's WellBeing and Schools Bill) and Parliamentary business, Distant Placements Bill. What if there…
The Care Review, now Children's WellBeing + outriding legislation, is for Residential Child Care "no more than a rug placed over a trapdoor" (TLS 08 08 25) over an oubliette.…
Lots of people have helpfully written about the importance of language in ‘the care system’ and in particular how that can impact on children and young people. Some of that…
second-edition-therapeutic-child-care-standards-cofc-ccqi-2025.pdf These are essential for providers and commissioners to know… Many residential and foster care services describe themselves as offering therapeutic care but there has been no agreed standard available…
A contribution to the Public Accounts Committee Financial sustainability of children’s care homes Inquiry It is necessary to understand Residential Child Care as an economic bubble. In doing so we…