The Institute of Childcare and Social Education launched the online campaign saying it wants to urge the government to protect looked-after children in England and Wales by providing the residential child care workforce with the support it requires.
Former manager of NCERCC Jonathan Stanley gave his backing to the petition calling on the 25,000 employees working in the residential sector to sign up on the Number 10 website, and to highlight the cause to wider children’s services staff.
The petition warns that without NCERCC, or an equivalent organisation, "residential childcare services of England will risk failure".
"The cost of such failure will be human – the suffering of children and young people whose needs are not met – but the financial costs are likely to outweigh the core costs," it states.
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