Higher Aspirations - NRCCI Launch

The primary purpose of the NRCCI was to undertake a strategic review of residential child care services and make sector driven recommendations to the Scottish Government, local government and providers of residential child care.

Adam Ingram asked SIRCC to lead the NRCCI and thereby honour the Government’s commitment to working with partners to make residential care the first and best placement of choice for those children whose needs it serves.

The ‘Higher Aspirations, Brighter Futures’ materials, produced by the NRCCI, were launched at an event in Edinburgh on Wednesday 2nd December 2009. These materials are in the form of four reports: NRCCI Overview Report; Matching Resources to Needs Report; Commissioning Report; and Workforce Report.

"We hope that these reports will help to strengthen residential child care and build upon the good work already being done by these services. The recommendations in these reports are ambitious and essential for the benefit of the children and young people who are looked after in residential child care, their families, and the wider workforce."

Jennifer Davidson, Director

Copies of the reports are available via the links below.