Why Staff Burnout in Children’s Homes Is a Safeguarding Issue
Staff wellbeing in residential children’s homes tends to get filed under “nice to have” — something to address once budgets allow, once rotas are fully staffed, once the current crisis has passed. But treating it as an optional extra misses something important. When staff are burnt out, dysregulated, or running on empty, their capacity to […]
What “Trauma-Informed” Actually Means — Explained Simply
“Trauma-informed” might be the most used — and most misunderstood — phrase in care, education and workplace wellbeing right now. It’s in job adverts, inspection frameworks and mission statements. And yet when I ask teams what it actually means for a Tuesday afternoon shift, the room often goes quiet. As a psychotherapist who trains frontline […]