by Jonny Matthew | Feb 4, 2022 | Blog, Youth Justice
It struck me today – not for the first time – that trauma has a nasty habit of reproducing itself. Or rather the behaviour that springs from trauma and the systems that respond to it often seem to compound the problem. An example… Trauma 1 HISTORY:...
by Jonny Matthew | Jun 3, 2019 | Policy, Practice
Children sometimes fail to understand the things we say to them. And yet, often, we don’t even realise this.Kids from troubled, traumatised or attachment disordered backgrounds are particularly susceptible to speech and language problems.So I asked my friend and...
by Jonny Matthew | Aug 29, 2018 | Reports, Uncategorised
The Children’s Society has published it’s Good Childhood Report this week. The report draws on qualitative research with over 65,000 children, to try and redress the lack of children’s voices in the debate about their well-being. One of the most...
by diviadmin | Feb 26, 2018 | Reports
Public Health Wales and the University of Bangor have published their report on the relationship between resilience and the onset of Adverse Childhood Experiences. The report gives clues for those working with both children and adults – about how to mitigate the...
by diviadmin | Oct 16, 2017 | Practice, Safeguarding
If you work with troubled children, sooner or later they’ll tell you what’s happened to them. So why do some children struggle to give a clear story of what took place? Trauma and memory… A couple of years ago, I was first on the scene at a...