We have the potential to reconsider the idea of family and parenting as possible for residential settings and to look at the full range of provision for all children living away from home in all circumstances and for all needs.
When a publication has misconstrued, misunderstood, misinterpreted Residential Child Care it is important there is a response.
The recent children’s commissioner publication ‘Family and its protective effect. Part One of the Independent Family Review considers Residential Child Care options as ‘institutional’. Page 42 – 43 ‘A significant minority of children live in institutions…’
There are several strongly evidenced responses to critics of residential care:
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