Webinar: using compassionate and trauma-informed leadership in children’s residential care services

This webinar is for anyone who works with children in residential care who may have experienced trauma, including:

• people who develop children's residential services
• children’s residential managers
• children's residential workers
• people who support children and young people in residential settings
• people who support the workforce in children’s residential settings.

In this session, we’ll explain:

• what it means to be a relationship-focussed, trauma-informed residential care setting
• how compassionate leadership can help you to create a setting with a positive culture and good staff well-being
• why it’s important for staff to keep learning and to develop skills
• how to set up systems that help you to keep working this way.

Dr Lynn McDonnell, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Lead
Gwent Attachment Service

Gwent Attachment Service is a psychology service in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. It improves outcomes for children and young people with a history of disrupted attachments and developmental trauma.

The service has worked extensively with all five local authorities in Gwent. It focuses on delivering impactful training and skills development to frontline workers, and senior leadership, to create trauma-informed systems.

To find out more about this webinar, email: residentialchildcare@socialcare.wales