CYP Now - The Big Debate: Would consistent application of TIC benefit children’s services?

Despite the rapid growth in its use by services supporting vulnerable children and young people, there is wide variation in how trauma-informed care is being delivered by providers and organisations

The language used by practitioners about children can easily become victim blaming, panelists warned. Picture: Robertson/Peopleimages.com/Adobe Stock

The panel

Jake Grout-Smith is programme and impact lead at the Youth Endowment Foundation.

Grout-Smith is a monitoring, evaluation and learning specialist with more than a decade of experience in social change programmes.

He has previously worked for Comic Relief as its evaluation and learning lead and has a special interest in education.

Kirsten Asmussen is head of child development at Foundations, formerly What works Centre for Children and Families.

Asmussen is a developmental psychologist with expertise in the parent/child relationship. She previously worked at the National Academy for Parenting Research at King’s College London. In 2021, she undertook a review of TIC

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