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Some 60 per cent of Islington’s children are in social housing and those growing up in the inner London borough face a range of social challenges associated with deprivation.
As a means of tackling this inequality, the local authority has been implementing trauma-informed practice (TIP) within frontline children’s services as well as in schools.
Laura Eden, the borough’s director of safeguarding, considers TIP to be a key tool for tackling the problem. Eden says it helps improve the capacity of the most vulnerable children to form enduring, secure relationships.
“That is why we have been at the forefront of trauma-informed practice,” she explains.
“We know that adverse childhood experiences can have a negative, lasting effect on the health and wellbeing of children and young people.
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