The St Christopher’s Fellowship, which runs children’s homes and semi-independent accommodation, found that staff scores on a questionnaire for those working with people who have experience of trauma showed both risk of burnout and secondary traumatic stress.
The surveys were carried out by staff between April 2020 and April 2021.
Across the organisation, the average score for risk of burnout was 23.6 out of 50.
The average score for risk of suffering secondary traumatic stress was 21.5 “but the score decreased steadily throughout the year, from 22.5 in June 2020 down to 20.5 in April 2021,” results show.
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