Training & CPD Workshops
Training includes:
- Child-centred, trauma-informed communication
- Writing to the child, not just about them
- Reducing jargon and strengthening clarity
- Emotionally attuned and containing communication
- Using the ARC Sentence™ for clear and safe explanations
- Applying the STREAM™ Framework within safeguarding and assessment practice
- Real examples from education, social care, health, and supported accommodation
- Practical tools professionals can use immediately
Training formats:
- Whole-team training sessions
- Multi-agency workshops and training
- 90-minute introductory sessions
- Half-day workshops (3 hours)
- Full-day training and development days (6 hours)
- Conference speaking and keynote sessions
- Online, in-person, or hybrid delivery
- Bespoke workshops for local authorities, schools, NHS teams, fostering services, and supported accommodation providers
Who it’s for:
- Social workers, senior practitioners, and team managers
- Residential children’s home and supported accommodation staff
- Foster carers, fostering services, and support teams
- DSLs, safeguarding leads, SENCOs, and pastoral teams
- Early help, youth work, and family support practitioners
- NHS, CAMHS, paediatric, and therapeutic teams
- Multi-agency professionals working with children and families
STREAM™
STREAM™ is an original framework developed by Rebecca Linton. Practitioners are welcome to use STREAM in their own direct practice. Organisations or individuals wishing to deliver STREAM training, reproduce training materials, or use the STREAM™ name should contact Rebecca Linton at writingtothechild@gmail com regarding licensing.
© Rebecca Linton 2026. All rights reserved.
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Training is grounded in real practice, ensuring staff can apply changes immediately within their role.
Alignment With National Guidance Writing to the Child™
Ofsted Expectations
Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)
Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)
My approach supports Ofsted’s expectations for:
- Clear, evidence-based writing
- Child-centred and strengths-based practice
- Emotionally intelligent communication
- Transparent decision-making
- Documentation that reflects a child’s lived experience
Ofsted described my own assessments as “amazing and trauma-informed.”
My training helps teams achieve the same clarity and quality in their work.
Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)
Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)
Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)
Schools must ensure safeguarding information is:
Clear, timely and accurate
Easily understood by children and families
Child-centred and rooted in lived experience
Shared appropriately with multi-agency partners
Writing to the Child™ helps schools meet these responsibilities by teaching staff to communicate in ways that are:
- Jargon-free
- Emotiona
Schools must ensure safeguarding information is:
Clear, timely and accurate
Easily understood by children and families
Child-centred and rooted in lived experience
Shared appropriately with multi-agency partners
Writing to the Child™ helps schools meet these responsibilities by teaching staff to communicate in ways that are:
- Jargon-free
- Emotionally safe
- Accessible to families
- Suitable for safeguarding processes
- Consistent with DSL expectations
NHS & Health Guidance
Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)
NHS & Health Guidance
NHS and clinical services are required to use:
Trauma-informed approaches
Person-centred communication
Clear, accessible clinical documentation
Multi-agency information sharing
The CARES™ Framework (Context, Abilities, Response, Explanation, Steadying Step) supports NHS practitioners to produce communication that is:
- Transparent and clinically
NHS and clinical services are required to use:
Trauma-informed approaches
Person-centred communication
Clear, accessible clinical documentation
Multi-agency information sharing
The CARES™ Framework (Context, Abilities, Response, Explanation, Steadying Step) supports NHS practitioners to produce communication that is:
- Transparent and clinically clear
- Emotionally attuned
- Appropriate for families
- Safe for safeguarding processes
- Shareable across health, education and social care