The Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) report details the 10 traumatic adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that can provide useful predictors of poor health, mental health problems and contact with the criminal justice system in later life.
These ACEs are:
But the report warns that public services may be ignoring other factors and therefore missing children who need help.
The traumatic effect of poverty and neighbourhood crime are among wider social and economic factors that children’s professionals need to give greater focus to, the EIF says. Other factors include bullying, disability and discrimination.
This wider look at children’s lives would enable public services to better co-ordinate support and improve training for professionals about the links between childhood experiences and trauma, the report states.
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