Event Summary

Trauma is everybody’s business.

The public and VCSE sectors have a vital role to play in recognising trauma, avoiding re-traumatisation and ​supporting recovery in vulnerable people.

Westminster Insight’s Trauma Informed Public Services Conference explores how teams, organisations and services must take a trauma informed approach in everything they do, rather than as a standalone specific intervention.

By embedding trauma informed practice across public services, we can help people to live happier, healthier, crime-free lives, and in the longer term reduce demand across public services. You will take away tangible examples of where trauma informed practices have been applied successfully in practice, including in the health, social care, housing, education and criminal justice​ sectors.

Hear directly from people with lived experience of trauma about what services can do to improve access to support, reduce re-traumatisation, recognise resilience and support recovery.

Explore how every aspect of a person’s experience of your service, from their first contact through to interventions can be underpinned by safety, choice, trust, collaboration, empowerment and cultural considerations.

Return to your team bursting with ideas about how to deliver your services through a trauma-focused lens.

Key Points

  • Understand the business case and benefits of being trauma informed
  • Get to grips with the practical steps of embedding a trauma informed approach
  • Hear from a range of different public sector teams about how they overcame implementation challenges
  • Hear about progress in the nation-wide drive to make all public services trauma informed
  • Learn how to improve your services with feedback from lived experience of trauma
  • Ensure staff working with vulnerable people are adequately supported
  • Benchmark your current service provision to understand where you are on the trauma informed journey