David Lane has written to tell us of a petition on the No. 10 Downing Street website asking the government to re-establish the NCERCC or an equivalent body to provide leadership, support and advice for residential child care services. This petition is being supported by the Institute of for Childcare and Social Education and the Social Care Association. David asks everyone who supports this to sign up to the petition as soon as possible and to tell others who may be interested about the petition. To sign up, Google "petitions" or go direct to www.epetitions.direct.gov.uk. The title of the petition is NCERCC.
It is to be hoped that substantial support for the petition will send the government a message. Since every person signs individually and everyt person's name counts, David believes that it is "something to which everyone concerned can lend their support." If you require more information contact David at DCL.Davidlane.org
Many readers will recall the general dismay which ran through the world of residential child care in England when at the beginning of 2010 the last government surprisingly called a halt to the funding of the palpably successful NCERCC and gave over some of the Centre's functions to a private consortium called "Tribal". The current government decided to pull the plug on the Tribal contract but since that time residential child care has not been offered any support to fill the void created by the closure of the NCERCC. We support the ICSE and SCA in their call for a return of the NCERCC.
This news and opinion item first appeared on the home page of the goodenoughcaring website at http://www.goodenoughcaring.com on September 4th, 2011.
Many readers will recall the general dismay which ran through the world of residential child care in England when at the beginning of 2010 the last government surprisingly called a halt to the funding of the palpably successful NCERCC and gave over some of the Centre's functions to a private consortium called "Tribal". The current government decided to pull the plug on the Tribal contract but since that time residential child care has not been offered any support to fill the void created by the closure of the NCERCC. We support the ICSE and SCA in their call for a return of the NCERCC.
This news and opinion item first appeared on the home page of the goodenoughcaring website at http://www.goodenoughcaring.com on September 4th, 2011.
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