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Explore

Ways to explore systems issues

Link to Changing Futures system learning resources (currently being built)

Refer

Ways to refer to other agencies

Includes links to directories

Commission

We believe it will help people who commission any service to have some simple watch words to help make sure the provider who takes on the work will, where relevant, take a trauma informed approach.

There are six “tenets” set out by the government about what a trauma informed approach includes, set out in full here. (add link). But in terms of commissioning, we will repeat the headlines here.

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While partners work on what trauma informed commissioning looks like across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, here are some useful guides and thoughts to help steer the start of our journey:

One Page Summary: Practical Applications for Trauma-Informed Commissioning from South Gloucestershire

Brief summary:

Trauma-informed commissioning integrates safety, trust, and empowerment into service design, delivery, and evaluation. These practices create systems that support recovery, reduce harm, and promote equity.

Link to Applications-for-Trauma-Informed-Commissioning.pdf

Integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness, guidance from NICE

Brief summary:
Planning integrated multidisciplinary health and social care services. Commissioners of health, social care and housing services should work together to plan and fund integrated multidisciplinary health and social care services for people experiencing homelessness, and involve commissioners from other sectors, such as criminal justice and domestic abuse, as needed. These services should contribute to the government’s aim of ending rough sleeping and preventing homelessness.

Link to Integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness NICE

West Midlands Trauma Informed Commissioning Guidance

Funding and commissioning contracts can be extremely influential in the outcomes of those across the region. They shape how funding flows, impacting service providers, staff, individuals, families, and entire communities. Recognising the important role that commissioning plays in developing a trauma informed, emotionally safe region, this ground-breaking document, informed by over 100 professionals, has been developed. This document aims to think about commissioning through a trauma informed lens. It serves as a tool to support funding and commissioning contracts can be extremely influential in the outcomes of those across the region. They shape how funding flows, impacting service providers, staff, individuals, families, and entire communities.

Link: here

Centre for Mental Health “A sense of safety”: trauma informed approaches for women

Brief summary:  Four themes emerged through our interviews and site visits:

• Approaches to service delivery: the services that seemed best able to adopt trauma informed approaches  tended to have a holistic approach to meeting women’s needs; to prioritise relationships and peer support; and to create a sense of safety, choice and control.
• Funding and commissioning: many of the services we visited were delivering trauma-informed approaches under what was frequently described as precarious or “fragile” funding conditions, often through a number of different funding streams – creating challenges to delivering holistic support.
• Organisational issues: many organisations found it challenging to make the sort of cultural shift needed in order to start delivering trauma-informed services. Shifting a paradigm and changing a culture in this way is a long-term process.
• Challenges for trauma-informed care: these included the difficulty of bringing about a trauma-informed approach in an inherently traumatising environment, such as a prison

The report goes on to explore each theme in more detail.

Link: CentreforMH_ASenseOfSafety_0.pdf

Share

Guidance on information sharing

Link to trusted person info sharing note here (once completed)

Reflect

Ways to reflect together

Info from reflect fieldwork group here

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