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Trauma-Informed Care

Approaches to care that recognize and respond to the impact of trauma on individuals, promoting healing and resilience.

Achieving Stable Placements: A Professional Guide to the Matching Process in Social Care

Explore the critical matching process in social care, detailing professional considerations, challenges, and best practices for achieving stable and nurturing placements for children and young people in care. This guide emphasises the profound impact of stability on child development and well-being.

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Types of Care Placements for Looked After Children

Explore the diverse types of care placements for looked after children, from various forms of foster care to residential settings and supported accommodation. Understand how each placement type is designed to meet individual needs, promoting stability, safety, and well-being for children within the care system.

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The Quality Standards Framework: Ensuring Excellence and Accountability in Social Care

Discover the Quality Standards Framework (QSF) in social care, a comprehensive blueprint for excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring high standards of care and positive outcomes for vulnerable individuals.

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Operationalizing Social Learning Theory in the Care Sector: A Guide for Professionals and Carers

Operationalizing Social Learning Theory in the Care Sector: A Guide for Professionals and Carers

Social Learning Theory, pioneered by Albert Bandura, establishes that individuals learn behaviors, emotional reactions, and attitudes through the observation and imitation of others. For professionals and carers looking after children, this theory is not just an academic concept; it is the...

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A Practitioner’s Guide to Social Pedagogy: Building Trauma-Responsive Relationships

A Practitioner’s Guide to Social Pedagogy: Building Trauma-Responsive Relationships

Social pedagogy is a holistic framework for working with children and young people that integrates education and care into a single professional practice. It focuses on the "head, heart, and hands" to support the development of the whole person through meaningful, everyday relationships. In the...

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Understanding Attachment Theory: A Professional Framework for Supporting Looked After Children

Understanding Attachment Theory: A Professional Framework for Supporting Looked After Children

Attachment theory is the fundamental psychological framework used to understand how the quality of early relationships between a child and their primary caregiver dictates the child's lifelong emotional, social, and cognitive development. For professionals in the social care sector—including...

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