Children and young people who have experienced trauma will have difficulty in stressful situations and can present with a range of challenging behaviours. We have a responsibility to:
- Respond in a way that promotes a sense of care, self-autonomy, safety and positive change.
- Protect children and young people, as well as those working with them.
- Support children and young people to be able to express their feelings and manage their behaviour.
Our Goal
Children and young people will enjoy positive relationships with their foster family, be able to interact positively with others and adapt to different situations. They live, grow and develop in environments that are safe, nurturing and supportive, and in a way that assists them in achieving their full potential.
We aim to enable children and young people to get to know who they are and to grow and live in harmony with themselves and others. To achieve this we provide an approach to therapeutic fostering that is specifically designed to improve the psychological and emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people. Therapeutic concepts relating to the effects of trauma, abuse and neglect are used to enable staff and foster parents to view children’s sometimes challenging behaviour as communication of confusion and distress in their internal world alongside, rather than simply as behaviour to be managed.
Read an article in our Knowledge Hub about PACE Parenting .
Read our Behaviour Support policy