Having worked in children’s homes in various capacities in the UK and overseas for most of my career, I have witnessed how the sector has changed and what this has meant for frontline staff.
As a clinical psychologist, part of my role is to often support organisations to develop their service through evaluation and development research, and also to train staff in therapeutic and trauma-informed care. The uptake of the principles of trauma-informed care have been largely welcomed across the sector and there is an important role for trauma-aware care in homes for children and young people who have often experienced multiple traumas, relationship losses and instability. However, I have also seen the impact of this shift upon frontline workers across a number of organisations, who are increasingly required to work as therapeutic practitioners but with none or very few of the protective factors that most therapeutic practitioners would see as basic and fundamental to safe practice.
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