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Restoring Trust: Repairing Youth-Professional Relationships After Safeguarding Disclosures
Learn how to support children after safeguarding disclosures. Rebuild trust, repair relationships, and restore emotional safety through trauma-informed care.
Written on 21 Jun 2025 for Professionals
Supporting Traumatised Children and Young People When Parents Withhold the Truth
Learn how to support traumatised children and young people when parents stay silent. Discover trauma-informed strategies, ethical insights, and multi-agency approaches.
Written on 15 Jun 2025 for Professionals
School Attendance: Rekindling Youth Engagement in UK Education
Explore why UK students disengage from school and discover effective strategies schools can use to re-engage learners and foster inclusive education.
Written on 13 Jun 2025 for Professionals
Helping & Supporting Bereaved Children & Adolescents
Learn how to support bereaved children and adolescents through effective social-emotional learning strategies. Practical tips, expert insights & resources.
Written on 29 May 2025 for Professionals
How to Respond When a Child Discloses Abuse
Discover practical steps to support and protect children after abuse disclosures. Read our comprehensive UK-based guide.
Written on 8 May 2025 for Professionals
Seeing Beyond the Behaviour: Building Relationships with SEMH Children
Learn how behaviour is communication in SEMH children and discover relationship-based strategies to build trust, emotional safety, and resilience.
Written on 5 Apr 2025 for Professionals
Empowering Young People Through Structured Self-Care
Download a printable Self-Care & Safety Planning Booklet for young people. Build coping skills, manage distress, and promote resilience in SEMH & neurodivergent young people.
Written on 27 Mar 2025 for Children
Free Printable All About Me Collage SEL Activity Sheet
Support SEL with this creative All About Me Collage activity. Boost children's self-awareness, emotional expression, resilience, and classroom connection.
Written on 17 Mar 2025 for Professionals
Free Printable Emotion Check-In SEL Activity Sheet
This free printable activity sheet is ideal for classrooms to support the SEL of children. It helps teach emotional regulation, emotional literacy and reflective thinking which help to improve self-awareness.
Written on 16 Mar 2025 for Professionals
3-House Assessment Tool: Giving Voice to the Child’s World
Explore how the 3-House Assessment Tool helps children share their experiences, build trust, and guide trauma-informed, child-centred support.
Written on 31 Oct 2024 for Professionals