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…
It is necessary to base the development of RegCare Coops on established child care theory and practice. Any move from this needs to be conscious and deliberated as to its…
One study concludes, ‘A failure to acknowledge and address the socioeconomic determinants of child maltreatment raises doubts about the appropriateness of any restructuring of public services’. Policies which tackle the…
In its welcoming the Ofsted report ‘Why do children go into children’s homes?’ in which the regulator calls for an audit of needs NCERCC explains the necessary ‘granularity ‘of data…
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,…
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…
This is a proposal for children in care and the professionals working with and for them in England to proactively propose what they want from a care review. Reviews such…
The situation is more complex than is presented in the consultation, there are many interrelated factors. Sophistication not simplification is required. It is not solely about placements A systemic analysis…
Current care commissioning and procurement practices are confounding the best of our collective intentions to do our best for children. In these theses we are asserting that: The current paradigm…
Whatever ‘residentialism’, is it is too important not to be stated as a means of starting its creation. Residentialism does not see itself as right or that group living is…