What Does a Trauma-Informed Family Hub Really Look Like in Practice?
Across the UK, Family Hubs are increasingly committing to becoming trauma-informed.
We’ve Had Trauma-Informed Training Isn’t a Good Commissioning Strategy
Because training attended is not the same as practice changed. If you work in commissioning, this will sound familiar:
How to Commission Implementation (Not Just Training)
Because training doesn’t change systems, implementation does.
How to Commission So Practitioners Can Actually Help Families
Every local authority leader I speak to wants the same thing:A system that stops firefighting and starts preventing harm.
Why trauma informed early help is essential to reducing knife crime
There are moments when evidence lands with such clarity that it becomes impossible to “unsee”. New national findings by Dr Tom Roberts and...
Children’s Early Help Isn’t a Service. It’s a System Behaviour
There is no term more widely used, and more widely misunderstood, in local authority children’s services than early help. Every strategy...
Commissioning a Service Isn’t Commissioning System Change for Children
You can meet every statutory duty, commission a “good” local provider, and still watch demand rise, crises spike, and scrutiny tighten. I...