Nathan Ward is vicar of St Margaret’s Church, Rainham, and a former youth custody deputy director

Custody staff need crisis communication training

Youth Justice
The support hub in Wales works to tackle and prevent ACEs, and brings experts together to share best practice.

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Policy context

Children's Services

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Research evidence

Social Care

Adolescent victimization and early-adult psychopathology: Approaching causal inference using a longitudinal twin study to rule out non-causal explanations

Social Care
Link between ACEs and poor outcomes may better be explained by factors such as poverty.

Early life adversity exposure and circulating markers of inflammation in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Mental health
Evidence shows some ACE screening practices make vulnerable clients uncomfortable.

Client and provider discomfort with an adverse childhood experiences survey

Mental health
A key priority this year has been to train a fifth of Bristol city’s public sector workforce in trauma-informed practice.

Agencies train ambassadors to spread ACE awareness

Information sharing
Young people in the Sefton programme took part in team building outdoor activities

Sefton’s trauma-informed approach helps families to recover from ACEs

Health
Inspections will take a different form after lockdown.

Inspections: Regulatory work continues

Ofsted

Learning Inequalities During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Education

Funding Focus: Support for BAME groups

Financial management
Guy Claxton, professor of education and learning sciences

Keys to empowering staff

Leadership