Webinar: what does trauma-informed practice look like in residential child care?

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 setting
• people who support the workforce in children’s residential setting.

In this session, we’ll:

• explain trauma-informed care means, and how it looks in child residential settings
• explain how traumatic events affect children and young people in residential settings
• show you what you can do to support environment in which children and young people are most likely to recover
• help you to plan the next steps for you and your team to becoming more ‘trauma-informed’.

Dr David Trickey, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
UK Trauma Council

Since 2000, David has specialised in working with traumatised children, young people and their families. He’s co-director of the UK Trauma Council, and he focuses on direct clinical work, and training and supervising people who work with traumatised children, young people and their families.

David acts as an expert witness in civil and criminal cases, particularly where families have experienced family homicide.

He was a member of the committee responsible for the 2018 revision of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines for post-traumatic stress disorder.

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