Category: Trauma Informed Care | The Secure Start Podcast
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Therapeutic Love In Residential Child Care, with Kate Brown
The word “love” can feel risky in child protection, but we keep coming back to it because the best care is never just a checklist. I’m joined by Kate Brown, an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor, former therapeutic community practitioner, and editor-in-chief of the Attachment journal. Kate also completed a PhD on the Cotswold Community,…
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Caring Means Holding Grief Without Turning Punitive, with Richard Rollinson
Care gets framed as gentle and cosy, but that story falls apart the moment you work closely with children who have lived through fear, loss and disruption. I sit down with Richard Rollinson for another instalment of objects that help use remember and think, to explore a tougher, more honest view: care as something we…
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A Big Heart And Spare Room Is Not A Care Plan, with Gareth K Thomas
Foster care is often sold with comforting slogans, but trauma-informed care demands something far more honest. Gareth K. Thomas, a former foster parent turned foster care consultant, argues that recruitment messaging like “a big heart and a spare room” actively harms placement stability because it attracts good people who are unprepared for developmental trauma, neglect,…
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Residential Care Should Be A Thoughtful First Choice For Some Kids, with Martha Holden
“Residential care is the last resort” sounds like a policy line, but it lands as a verdict on children and on the people who care for them. In this podcast conversation, Co-Director of the Residential Child Care Project at Cornell University, Martha Holden, and I push back on that idea and explore what happens when…
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Small Moments Build Safety And Hope, with Mary-anne Hodd
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in Care Leavers & Aftercare | The Secure Start Podcast, Care-Experienced Voices | The Secure Start Podcast, Child Protection Services | The Secure Start Podcast, Foster Care & OOHC | The Secure Start Podcast, Residential Child Care | The Secure Start Podcast, Trauma Informed Care | The Secure Start Podcast, Trauma Informed Practice | The Secure Start PodcastA child can walk into a house with a full fridge and a clean bed and still feel terrified. That’s the gap we’re trying to close, and it’s why this conversation matters. I’m joined by Mary-anne Hodd, founder of Journeys That Care, a CPD accredited training and consultancy that blends lived experience with psychology, teaching,…
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I am seen, so I am*
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in Developmental Trauma | The Secure Start Podcast, Foster Care & OOHC | The Secure Start Podcast, Psychotherapy, Reactive Attachment Disorder | The Secure Start Podcast, Residential Child Care | The Secure Start Podcast, Social Care Management | The Secure Start Podcast, Trauma Informed Care | The Secure Start Podcast, Trauma Informed Practice | The Secure Start PodcastIf A Child Breaks A Window What Are They Saying? Trauma-informed care starts with a shift in how we interpret behaviour. Instead of treating aggression, withdrawal, stealing, or rule-breaking as problems to stamp out, we can see them as communication and as an urgent attempt to secure a missing relational experience. In therapeutic communities like…
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How Barbara Docker-Drysdale Built Therapeutic Skill In Care Teams – John Whitwell
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in Foster Care & OOHC | The Secure Start Podcast, Leadership in Children’s Services | The Secure Start Podcast, Residential Child Care | The Secure Start Podcast, Social Care Management | The Secure Start Podcast, Supervision in Social Care | The Secure Start Podcast, Trauma Informed Care | The Secure Start Podcast, Trauma Informed Management | The Secure Start Podcast, Trauma Informed Practice | The Secure Start PodcastThe Consultant Who Changed A Community Barbara Docker-Drysdale, often called Mrs D or Pip, shaped modern therapeutic communities by focusing less on “fixing” children directly and more on building therapeutic skill in the adults around them. At the Cotswold Community she was brought in as a consultant psychotherapist to work primarily with staff teams, meeting…
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From Bambi To Boundaries: What Objects Reveal About Mind, Body, And Meaning, with Richard Rollinson
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in Developmental Trauma | The Secure Start Podcast, Foster Care & OOHC | The Secure Start Podcast, Reactive Attachment Disorder | The Secure Start Podcast, Residential Child Care | The Secure Start Podcast, Trauma Informed Care | The Secure Start Podcast, Trauma-Informed Schools | The Secure Start PodcastObjects that teach therapeutic care Objects can be trivial, or they can be portals. In therapeutic care, they often become the latter: anchors that hold a story, a lesson, and a person. Across this conversation with much-loved veteran leader Richard Rollinson, we track how a toy fawn, a battered picture book, a chocolate egg, a…
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Truth First: Caring Beyond The System – A Podcast interview with Louise Allen
Louise Allen shares powerful insights into care leaver voice, identity, belonging and systemic reform. We discuss trauma, hope, and what genuinely improves outcomes for young people after care. Authentic, challenging and full of lived-experience wisdom.
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Relearning Trust Through Relationships – A Podcast Interview with John Turberville
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in Care-Experienced Voices | The Secure Start Podcast, Developmental Trauma | The Secure Start Podcast, Family Preservation & Reunification | The Secure Start Podcast, Foster Care & OOHC | The Secure Start Podcast, Leadership in Children’s Services | The Secure Start Podcast, Residential Child Care | The Secure Start Podcast, Trauma Informed Care | The Secure Start Podcast, Trauma-Informed Schools | The Secure Start PodcastJoin John Turberville as we unpack residential childcare reform, trauma-informed leadership, the role of culture, and what truly supports children to heal and flourish in out-of-home care. Insightful, honest, and deeply relevant for carers, educators and leaders.