Writing To The Child Book

Whats Inside

WHAT’S INSIDE

Clear, practical guidance you can use immediately:

✔ The STREAM™ Framework

Strengths, Trauma, Rights, Emotion, Anti-oppression, Memory, a structured approach to child-centred writing.

✔ The ARC Sentence

A simple formula that makes complex information clear, safe and emotionally containing.

✔ The Cupful Rule

How to be honest without overwhelming a child.

✔ Before-and-after examples

Real examples showing how to transform cold, adult-centred reports into warm, understandable, child-focused communication.

✔ Trauma-informed writing principles

Aligned with best practice, Ofsted expectations and psychologically safe communication.

About the Author

Rebecca Linton

I’m Rebecca, an old educational consultant, social worker and the creator of Writing to the Child™, STREAM™ and the ARC Sentence. My frontline assessments were once described by Ofsted as “amazing and trauma-informed,” and I now help professionals communicate with children in clear, safe and emotionally intelligent ways.

Writing to the Child™ A Global Movement for Better Words and Better Outcomes

Writing to the Child™ began as a simple idea:

children deserve to understand the words written about their lives.

What started as a book has grown into a movement reaching professionals across education, social care, health and beyond. Through the STREAM™, ARC and CARES™ frameworks, practitioners are learning how to write in ways that are clearer, safer and more emotionally attuned to the children who will one day read their files.

This work is now part of a growing global initiative, a collective commitment to improving the way we communicate with and about children, everywhere.

Because when our words change, outcomes change.

If your organisation is ready to join this movement and strengthen its child-centred practice, I’d love to support you.

Ready to Transform How Your Team Writes?

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