O.M.G. in RCC – Opportunity led working
NCERCC believes in publicly promoting practice for free. NCERCC has never accepted that practice is the property of anyone. ‘Opportunity led working’ is the first in a 3-part series addressing…
No one can say they didn’t know … Maintaining trust and relationships (Pt III)
For the past ten years and more NCERCC, often with a small number of notable consistent others, has been researching, analysing, explaining the ownership pattern (and comparative costs) of children’s…
No one can say they didn’t know … the commissioning of Hope (Part II)
For the past ten years and more NCERCC, often with a small number of notable consistent others, has been researching, analysing, explaining the ownership pattern (and comparative costs) of children’s…
As local as possible and as specialist as necessary – rethinking high level social care needs provision
This document considers a reconfiguration possible with a recognition and realisation of high level needs as a conceptual framework in social care placements. It re-configures the recent DfE publication regarding…
The role and task of Residential Child Care – there is no such thing as a ‘children’s home’ only children’s homes
This is raised as an area for focus in the Case for Change. NCERCC has continuously provided material addressing this question. What is immediately apparent in the diagram below is…
Education Select Committee Comment
Children’s homes inquiry latest - the Education Select Committee has to stick with evidence, stay with evidence, challenge evidence about children’s homes When the committee was provided with robust evidence…
Re:thinking children’s social work/care funding – MMT and RCC and the questions the Care Review is actually asking
Why do ‘we’ keep forgetting what money is and how it works? Money should be understood as a ‘constitutional project’ (Desan 2014). The idea of money and how it used…
“We’ve compared the markets now’s the time to compare the meerkats”
This blog is about keeping our eyes open and not being distracted. It’s about what does the research and analysis say? When considering the financing of children’s social care, we…
Keeping the social in social work and care – it’s about ‘we’ and ‘me’ – vital reading for the Care Review
Reading about the removal of Covid safety precautions brought to the front of my mind that social/care work is an expression of concern for others. It is ‘me’ taking my…
Thanks for the positive feedback – We have, We are, We can,
Thank you to the people sending us the very positive feedback. NCERCC’s priority at the moment is supporting people rethinking Residential Child Care and Commissioning. Knowing people are connecting with…