Residential Child Care Workers Points Of View Podcast , Global

In this interview I speak with Jade Elliot and Justine Irvine who are directors of Today Tomorrow , a new RCC provider based in North Ayrshire . This was an interesting conversation about setting up a children's service during a challenging period in history. I look forward to catching up with Jade and Justine in around a years time to see how things are and what learning has taken place.  

In this episode I talk to a senior manager with over thirty years’ experience working within the field of RCC. Amongst other things we discuss the fusion between the public, private and charitable sectors, some of the opportunities associated up with joined up working alongside  opportunity that the national care review and the promise presents,  we also discuss physical restraint , cross border placements, leadership  and the need to be brave at this pivotal period within the sector .I really enjoyed interviewing this professional and I hope you enjoy listening too.  So without further a do please welcome John Ryan.

2nd interview with Ian Milligan. In this second interview , we carry on the conversation from the first podcast . We explore what Ian has found to be his favourite piece of academic work. We also explore Ian's point of view with regard to physical restraint and whether the controversial area of practice is required or whether it should be banned.