Safeguarding practice guidance: trauma-informed practice
Trauma-informed practice refers to a framework for health and care interventions that recognises the profound effects of trauma on individuals' neurological, biological, psychological, and social development. This approach seeks to enhance practitioners' understanding of the adverse consequences trauma may have on people and communities, particularly concerning their sense of safety and capacity to build trusting relationships with health and care services and professionals and actively seeking to prevent re-traumatisation.
This guidance provides a definition of trauma-informed practice, its key principles and how it can be built into services and systems.
