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Why DO We Need A Conference For Care Experienced Adults?
GUEST POST from Ian Dickson I looked at the disadvantage statistics for people who have left care yesterday. They’ve changed little over decades, but I check them a lot to remind myself why I campaign for change for the care experienced community. The same depressing...
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Is There Finally A Space For Care Experienced Adults To Inform Policy?
I am currently writing my MA Dissertation and I have chosen to focus on care experienced adults who left care in the 1970's and 1980's and the impact of certain experiences across the life course. The academic research in this area is strangely lacking and this...
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Self Compassion for Parents Within The ACE’s
Attachment Awareness, Trauma informed and ACE educated frameworks for understanding individual behaviour, challenges within society and preventative strategies are embedded well within all my work now and I spend a lot of time training and speaking on these areas...
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Cross Cultural Discussions: Lectures on Mental Health and Well Being In Pakistan
In November 2017, I landed in Lahore to deliver six lectures across a variety of institutions on behalf of Pakistan's Children, an emerging charity created by Saffina Ellahi. Saffina had attended a talk that I was delivering at The House of Lords on Adverse Childhood...
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Tiptoeing into Christmas After Childhood Trauma
Guest post from Rosie Canning, Writer, Campaigner and PHD Student researching the representation of care leavers in fiction. It is that time of year again. The season to be jolly. It doesn’t matter how old you are, when you have the trauma of unhappy childhood...
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5 Ways To Have A Trauma Informed Christmas
Christmas Past is that yearly place we have to enter, often subconsciously, almost certainly without our permission until we bring our subconscious to that conscious place of knowing; awareness. My 'awareness' that it's coming starts around August as I internally...
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The Lost Generation of Care Experienced Adults
There has been a growing and developing conversation within the care experienced community for some time around support, connection and resonance for those of us who are a long way from being young people/young adults. The term ‘care leaver’ has become synonymous and...
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A Trauma Informed Writers Workshop For Care Experienced Adults
Home! Hiraeth! A trauma informed writing workshop for care experienced adults. Here is the write up from Lisa Cherry and Rosie Canning. The event was organised by Amanda Knowles, Trustee and Director of The Consortium for Therapeutic Communities and Richard...
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Are Nurture Groups Relevant In A School Setting?
Introduction The more recent resurgence of Nurture Groups in schools as a strategy of intervention for children who are struggling with mainstream classroom settings is worthy of an exploration. There are many concerns about the placing of ‘nurture’ within a...
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What IS Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional Intelligence (EQ as opposed to IQ) is one of those things that I talk about a lot (and I mean a lot) in the training that I deliver. This is because when we're talking about healing from trauma, being attachment aware or developing self care, EQ is uber...
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Should Teachers be Expected To ‘Fix’ Attachment?
A recent discussion on Twitter from a Deputy Headteacher and Director of Inclusion about how it is not a teachers job to 'fix' attachment in children led me to want to offer a response in a way that far superseded the 140 character limit afford by twitter, on whether...
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What Are The Current Roles of Artificial Intelligence in Education?
The excitement about the largely untapped potential for Artificial Intelligence to play a significant role in education falls very much in line with the era in which we find ourselves. The busy world we live in and that teachers are teaching in, with the extensive...
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