Relationships: the hidden driver of system change
When services talk about transformation, the conversation often centres on strategy, governance, performance and implementation. These things...
Safety: Protecting The Workforce That Protects Families
When services discuss trauma-informed practice, conversations often focus on children, families and communities. And rightly so. However,...
What Does a Trauma-Informed Family Hub Really Look Like in Practice?
Across the UK, Family Hubs are increasingly committing to becoming trauma-informed.
The Healing Together Framework: a roadmap for sustainable trauma-informed practice
Why another framework? Across education, health and social care, there has never been greater awareness of trauma.
What Are You Tolerating as a Commissioner That Needs to Stop
Because what we tolerate quietly shapes outcomes loudly. Commissioners are rarely short of responsibility, but they are often short of...
Commissioning Models Are Turning Expensive Resource into Sign Posters
Every local authority has one resource that dwarfs every other line in the budget: Your workforce. Not your providers.Not your commissioned...
Why “We’ve Already Got a Provider” Isn’t a Commissioning Strategy
There is a sentence I hear in almost every local authority I work with: “We’ve already got a provider for that.”