The National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care (NCERCC) has contacted the Department for Education and leaders of the Care Review calling for a motion containing possible solutions to the crisis to be tabled before parliament.
Proposals put forward by the NCERCC would require the Education Secretary to submit a review to parliament every two years detailing the system in place for assessing and meeting the workforce needs of social care placements for children in England.
The NCERCC is also calling for an independently verified assessment of current workforce numbers and the projected supply for the following five, 10 and 20 years as well as an independently verified assessment of workforce numbers based on the projected health and care needs of the population over the same time periods “consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility long-term fiscal projections”.
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