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Trauma-Informed Practice: Policy context

It is difficult to define trauma-informed care, with experts and providers having different interpretations of what makes a service trauma-infomed.
Nurseries have responded to the challenges of the pandemic by working to offer child-centred care and support staff wellbeing. Picture: Trendsetter Images/Adobe Stock
Nurseries have responded to the challenges of the pandemic by working to offer child-centred care and support staff wellbeing. Picture: Trendsetter Images/Adobe Stock

However, consistent themes emerge from academic literature, which, helps to describe what trauma-informed practice looks like. NPC in its guide to trauma-informed approaches suggests five principles for developing trauma-informed care. These are:

The NPC guide explains that for an organisation to deliver trauma-informed care it needs to apply to all aspects of the design and delivery and be underpinned by a culture of thoughtfulness across the organisation. It says leaders “need to provide committed and effective leadership to initiate and sustain such a significant operational and cultural change, supported by appropriate governance”.

Some organisations have had success in appointing “trauma champions” tasked with the day-to-day delivery of trauma-informed services. Such a model has been implemented by youth homelessness charity St Basils (see practice example).

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