Evidence-informed thought leadership on trauma-informed care, ACEs, domestic abuse, harm reduction, and organisational culture.
Have we changed the job without changing the training? There is a particular route into management that will be familiar to almost every professional organisation. Someone is very good at wh...
Criminal exploitation rarely relies on force alone. Instead, it is sustained through grooming, coercive control and psychological manipulation that gradually remove choice, increase dependency and...
Criminal exploitation in the UK occurs when children, young people or vulnerable adults are groomed, coerced, threatened or manipulated into criminal activity for the benefit of others. It can inv...
Criminal exploitation is a growing safeguarding and criminal justice concern across the UK. It affects children, young people and adults who are groomed, coerced or controlled into criminal activi...
Debates around harm reduction versus abstinence have shaped substance use services for decades. These approaches are often presented as opposites one seen as permissive, the other as rigorous or m...
The term “complex needs” is widely used across health, housing, social care, safeguarding, and criminal justice services. Yet it is often misunderstood, inconsistently applied, or used as shorthan...
People experiencing substance use, homelessness, mental ill-health, offending, or repeated crisis involvement are often described as having complex needs. In reality, these needs are not inherentl...
When people think about fatal outcomes of domestic abuse, the focus is often on homicides cases where someone is killed by a partner or family member. What receives far less public attention but i...
Coercive control is a pattern of behaviour designed to dominate, isolate, and entrap another person through psychological, emotional, financial, and social means. In the UK, coercive control is re...
Psychological abuse does not leave physical scars, so it is less likely to trigger standard risk assessments used in suicide prevention. Many service models are designed around visible harm, such ...
In the UK, many people who work within health, social care, mental health, domestic abuse, substance use, criminal justice, housing and community services are carrying out some of the most emotion...
Trauma-informed practice has become an increasingly familiar concept across health, social care, education and community services in the UK. More organisations are recognising that many of the peo...
When working with individuals affected by substance use, one pattern shows up again and again: a history of trauma. Whether we’re talking about childhood abuse, neglect, domestic violence, homeles...
Phrases like “You’re so strong” or “You’re incredibly resilient” are often said with the best of intentions, but for someone who has endured significant trauma, these words can feel dismissive or ...
Mental illness and personality difficulty Mental illness and personality difficulty are often used interchangeably, but they refer to two different types of conditions. While mental illness is ...
Domestic abuse and coercive control are increasingly recognised as critical contributors to suicide risk in the UK. While domestic homicide statistics receive significant public and media attentio...
Trauma-informed language in health and social care In recent years, there has been increasing recognition of the importance of trauma-informed care in health and social care settings. Trauma-in...
What is emdr therapy and how is it used to treat trauma Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a type of psychotherapy that was developed in the late 1980s by psycholog...
What is a psychologically informed workplace? A psychologically informed workplace (PIW) is a work environment that takes into account the psychological well-being of employees and the impact o...
Contextual safeguarding is an approach to protecting children and young people that recognises that harm does not only occur within families. Instead, risks such as exploitation, violence, abuse, ...
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been shown to have a significant impact on individuals as they grow older. ACEs can be defined as any type of trauma that a person experiences during thei...
Safeguarding children is a fundamental responsibility across the UK, designed to protect children and young people from abuse, neglect, exploitation, and harm, while promoting their welfare, healt...
County Lines CSE and Criminal Exploitation are some of the most significant issues facing children and vulnerable adults in the UK today. These forms of exploitation are driven by organised cr...
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