The grant will be used to establish a national centre for excellence inresidential childcare.
Its main objectives will be to create measurable improvements inoutcomes for children in residential care and to significantly increasethe level and quality of staff training in residential children'ssettings.
It will also aim to achieve improvement in the level of compliance withthe set national minimum standards for children's homes and residentialschools and new partnerships between care providers andcommissioners.
The funding announcement was made at the Residential Childcare 2005conference in Birmingham on 9 November. The event is the annual nationalconference of the Children's Residential Network, which is also based atNCB.
Sheryl Burton, director of social inclusion at NCB, who will be managingthe project, said: "Residential childcare has been something of aCinderella among social services in the past. We hope this nationalcentre will give renewed focus and energy to this process to improveoutcomes for those children living in residential care in England."
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