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Welcome to Writing to the Child Educational Consulting: Your Partner in Success

Transform How Your Team Writes to and About Children


Writing to the Child™ provides trauma-informed, child-centred training and consultancy for professionals across education, social care and health.

Clear writing supports safe practice, builds trust and strengthens multi-agency working. My training equips teams with practical tools to create communication that is safer, clearer and more emotionally intelligent for children and families.

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Training & CPD Workshops

Training includes:

  • Child-centred and trauma-informed language.
  • Writing to the child, not just about them.
  • Removing jargon and increasing clarity.
  • Emotionally attuned, containing communication.
  • The ARC Sentence for safe, simple explanations.
  • Applying the STREAM™ Framework in assessments and safeguarding.
  • Real examples from education, social care and health.
  • Tools your team can use immediately.
     

Training formats:

  • Whole-team CPD  
  • Multi-agency training  
  • Twilight, half-day or full-day sessions  
  • Online or in-person delivery  
  • Bespoke workshops for NHS, schools or local authorities

Who it’s for:

  •  Schools & Education (DSLs, SENCOs, Safeguarding Leads, Pastoral Teams)
  • Children’s Social Care
  • Early Help & Family Support
  • NHS, CAMHS & Paediatrics
  • Therapeutic & Mental Health Services
  • Youth Justice & Community Teams

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Ready to take the next step? Contact us today to learn more about our services and how we can help you achieve your goals. We look forward to hearing from you!

Organisational Consultancy

Consultancy can include:

Common areas of support:

Common areas of support:

 


  • Review and improvement of assessments and templates
     
  • Trauma-informed language audits
     
  • Rewriting documents into child-friendly formats
     
  • Alignment with STREAM™, ARC and CARES™
     
  • Practice guidance and policy development
     
  • Coaching for leaders and managers
     
  • Multi-agency communication improvements
     
  • Support with inspection recommendations and action plans
     


Common areas of support:

Common areas of support:

Common areas of support:


  • Improving consistency in safeguarding documentation
     
  • Preparing for Ofsted or CQC expectations
     
  • Creating templates that reflect trauma-informed practice
     
  • Ensuring written communication is accessible to children and families
     
  • Developing a shared organisational language
     
  • Strengthening clinical documentation within NHS teams

Alignment With National Guidance Writing to the Child™ supp

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

Unlock Your Potential with Writing to the Child

STREAM™ Framework

CARES™ (for NHS & Health Teams)

STREAM™ Framework

Strengths, Trauma, Rights, Emotion, Anti-oppression, Memory - a structure that centres the whole child in written work.




ARC Sentence

CARES™ (for NHS & Health Teams)

STREAM™ Framework

Acknowledge- Reason- (Emotionally) Containing -

A simple method for creating safe, clear explanations children and families can understand.

CARES™ (for NHS & Health Teams)

CARES™ (for NHS & Health Teams)

CARES™ (for NHS & Health Teams)

Context, Abilities, Response, Explanation, Steadying Step - a child-centred framework for clinical documentation and safeguarding.

Why Organisations Choose Writing to the Child™ Practical, immediately usable

 

  •  Practical, immediately usable tools
     
  • Trauma-informed and relational
     
  • Frameworks aligned to national standards
     
  • Improved confidence and consistency in teams
     
  • Supports multi-agency communication
     
  • Enhances safeguarding and inspection readiness
     
  • Clear evidence of impact across sectors

 

Ready to Transform Your Team’s Communication?


Whether you're a school, NHS service, local authority or multi-agency team, I can help your organisation create safer, clearer and child-centred communication.

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