Jonathan has built extensive experience across local authority, private and voluntary organisations in care, education and health. He continues to work closely with residential child care settings across the country, always focusing on where the best outcomes can be achieved for children and young people. Throughout his career, he has been actively involved in developing and supporting best policy and practice.

25 years old in 2026, NCERCC is now centred on three priorities: people, practice and policy. This means working extensively with providers, commissioners, local, regional, and national government, regulators and researchers.

NCERCC combines practical support with insightful analysis through its twice-weekly blog. Increasingly, it is exploring new ways to communicate the realities of residential child care, using stories, songs, plays, graphic novels and other creative approaches to bring the sector’s experiences and challenges to life.

Jonathan gained wide and deep experience working in local authority, private and voluntary organisations across care, education and health. These days too, there is never a week he is not working somewhere across the country in or with a residential child care setting

One aspect is clear in his biography he  is always where the best can be achieved for children and young people, continuously involved with developing and supporting policy and practice.

NCERCC, 25 years old in 2026, has 3 interests – people, practice, policy. This means working extensively with providers, commissioners, local and national government, regulators, researchers.

NCERCC provides practical support and incisive analysis and comment in its twice weekly blog.  In the blog they are exploring communicating the life of residential child care in new ways. A new aspect of NCERCC life is finding new ways , to communicate things about the sector – stories, songs, plays, graphic novels, and more as they think of it.

During her practice career Marie has worked with all ages. In group living environments she has worked with diverse needs, regional observation and assessment and adolescent provision for young women. She then moved to bring residential knowledge and experience to the development of pioneering relationship focused fostering projects that were precursors to edge of care, step down and No Wrong Door that she describes as ‘residential care in the community.’