CYP Now - NCERCC responds to The Case for Change: Your Feedback

Having a focus on residential child care, National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care (NCERCC) responds solely to the section "What changes do we need to make to ensure we have the right homes in the right places with the right support? What should the role of residential care be in future?"

Jonathan Stanley is manager of the National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care. Picture: NCERCC

Overall, NCERCC responds with the words "and so …?"

It is extremely disappointing that the report-back is minimal, in itself, and compared to other elements of care.

It is extremely disappointing that nothing was included regarding relationships in residential child care (though is regarding other elements of care)

It is extremely disappointing that the report-back does not include some of the public comments made by the lead reviewer, for example, it was refreshing to hear the lead for the Care Review talking at an Education Select Committee that he understands the outcomes that have been pinned to children’s homes are not necessarily caused by them but are, using his word, ‘upstream’. That is, children’s homes frequently can inherit the previous failings of others. His advocacy was supported by another speaker.

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