Commissioning is a parenting and child care activity
What is the definition of quality we are using in planning placements for children and is it related to the task of caring for /parenting them? This is the first…
What if current RCC investment is a financial bubble?
Financial bubbles are not random. There are predictable factors. An analytical framework needs to be applied to Residential Child Care to see if it complies with the causes, and potential…
Reconsidering family and group care: contributing to the Care Review also being a Cultural review
In rethinking Residential Child Care there is the need to recover important conceptual thinking. The NCERCC paper Reconsidering family and group care makes a start. The Care Review must also…
Defining Care, today, for children’s services
It’s impossible to ask the right questions when you don’t know the answers” (Dominique Manotti Escape 2013) What is needed is sophistication not simplification. (NCERCC, repeatedly) NCERCC is sharing…
Groups and Groupings in Residential Child Care – Literature and overview
NCERCC have returned to this 2008 paper in the light of a regional task force in the West Midlands being created to move vulnerable children in children’s homes into specialist,…
You wait 3 decades for a review of children’s care and 7 come along at once.
There is a serious issue to be resolved. There are 7 government or parliamentary reviews that are placing demands on the small residential child care sector. Each demands intense attention…
What is the relationship of care work and love?
Over Christmas there may be a moment for us to reflect on the relationship of care work and love. This is the focus for the NCERCC review of the collaboration…
Look beneath headlines – new homes are from small and new providers not from the large ones.
Knowing that small children’s homes providers have been ‘out-opening’ large providers by 3.5:1 over the last 6 months has potential to change everything we have been thinking about the setting…