Having done well over 100 residentials in my time, at the start of which there was little regulation except for good sense, these issues are close to my heart. Before the litigious culture we have today, there were moments when it was very much a case of "there but for the grace of God". I never had much formal training on what needed to be done. But I have participated in two sessions on running residentials. They were some 10 years apart and they were remarkably different. The focus of the first was almost exclusively to do with relationships with the young people involved, the intensity of contact and the dynamics of the group. The second was about the first and foremost imperative to cover your back - write everything down, just in case.
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