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.
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:
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...
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 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.”