Therapeutic Blueprint: Recent Episodes
Therapeutic Blueprint
The Therapeutic Blueprint podcast aims to provide reflective guidance and support to children’s residential care home providers and anyone keen to learn about children's social care. The panel will discuss the current issues that the children’s sector faces and invite other professionals to the show to offer further insight and support. The panel have nearly 50 years of experience supporting children who are looked after and are committed to improving the profession and gaining more outstanding outcomes for children. The journey starts here…
This month, the panel dives into their toolkits to highlight some of the incredible resources they use to support their work with both children and adults. You’re invited to share the resources you use to support your teams and the children you work with.
This month, the panel explores the significance of celebrations and anniversaries for our children in care and how we must not overlook the importance of the impact of these moments in their lives.
In this episode, the panel explores some of the current challenges facing children’s residential care.
When children go missing from care, it presents a concerning situation that requires a compassionate and effective response. This month, the panel discusses things to consider when children go missing and how to respond therapeutically.
This episode sees the panel talking about the benefits of team days. From understanding the importance of a home having a sense of adult bonding time, reflective learning along with appropriate fun.
This episode explores the physical environment of a children’s home and its significance in creating a nurturing space. The panel delves into how the physical environment can make a homely feel of comfort and warmth, flexibility and adaptation, along with feelings of safety and security.
Today, the panel discusses pets in a children's home. They will reflect on the benefits of pets and the essential factors that should be considered. We will leave you with this little corker…. Why are fish so smart? Because they live in schools!
This is a topic we could talk about for hours. In this episode, the panel goes down the rabbit hole of social media and phones within social care. It is a hot topic of different and similar opinions regarding the pushes and pull factors of the online world. Along side our personal and professional beliefs on this often hidden world.
The first episode of 2024 sees the panel exploring playfulness. We explore the different types of play and how it's important to remember playfulness is a protective factor for children and adults alike.
It has come to that time in the year when the panel looks back on the season at how far they have come and what they hope for season 3... Maybe producer Stu will actually plan an episode, our editor and chief Ian will win the Euromillions or Hannah won't always be relied upon as the funny one? Miracles can happen, people. It's all about intentions. 😉
In this month's episode, the panel talk about how Christmas can be a tough time of year for staff and how being aware of our own emotions is crucial when looking after children at this time of year.
This episode sees the panel discuss working with our children's families including the challenges and benefits around this.
This episode is part 2 of the Safer Recruitment episode, as clearly, we had a lot to share on this topic!
This month, the panel discuss how they feel you can safely recruit staff to a children's home. At a time when recruitment is becoming more challenging, how do we ensure we don't let our standards slip.
A recent news report stated that hundreds of thousands of children are not attending school. The panel discuss how this relates to children who are looked after and suggest ideas of what could be some barriers to children feeling able to make positive steps to return to school.
By request, the panel discusses what risk assessing and management/ difficult decision making entails, how to ensure this is effective in practice and how we work to reduce risk.
Today's episode sees the panel discussing the social care common inspection framework. Unfortunately, we had technical issues with this episode and lost half of the recording. However, we have decided to release what we have anyway.
Continuing on from part 1, the panel discusses the do’s and don’ts of supervision and breaks down the importance of appraisals and the functionality around them.
The panel explores the different layers of what supervision should include, including types of supervisions and what they mean to individuals and the areas that are often missed.
This episode sees the panel discuss their experiences of being regulation 44 independent people and unpicking what the role entails.
This episode sees the panel interview Tim, a paramedic team leader of thirteen years and associate lecturer of paramedic science, regarding his perception of children's residential care and how we can better work together.
The panel shares their journey from the last year of podcasting, including their happiest moments and the lessons learnt, as well as the laughs along the way. There will also be highlights about what can be expected in season 2 starting January 2023!
This month the panel discusses the John Lewis’s Christmas advert, which raises awareness to looked after children to the general public.
As we all know, thinking about planning for Christmas in October feels too soon. However, in our profession, it can never be too soon to help transition our children into this period when it is everywhere we look. Therefore, this month the panel reflects on the festive period and shares their experiences of supporting children in what can be a challenging but magical time. 🎄 🎅
The panel reflects on their own experiences of how they perceive professionalism within residential care and discusses whether professionalism may be lacking at times. Consequently not reflecting the authenticity of the industry.
Grab yourself a choc ice and enjoy the episode. This month we take a stroll down memory lane and recall some of the best times spent making memories and sharing the benefits of spending time away with the children living in your home on a holiday and we don't mean for a 'break' in trauma responses (behaviour) but an actual holiday to have fun and build on interpersonal relationships.
This episode finds the panel discussing the importance of continued professional development (CPD) within children's residential care. CPD allows you to not only grow as a professional and individual but will enable you to help better support children in a mind-minded way. Furthermore, this is an ofsted requirement to the success of children's homes and therapeutic communities.
This episode looks at the challenges and successes of what it can feel like to be a male in the children's residential sector.
The panel discusses their top 10 reasons why working in children's residential care is so rewarding, as a professional but also as a human. We hope this episode can encourage more people to enter this amazing industry and feel what we feel. We also hope to remind existing professionals of the beauty of working with some of the most inspiring children going.
In this episode, the panel talk about burnout and the real impact it can have on individuals, a team and your children. A subject close to the heart of the panel members, they discuss their own experiences to start to reduce stigmas around the topic in our sector and to begin to raise awareness among listeners to be able to better protect individuals' well-being for them to continue to help our children.
This episode sees the panel exploring the challenges faced with the language used in children's residential care homes and whether this reflects an authentic childhood experience.
The panel will discuss a safeguarding practice review (previously a serious case review) on a children's residential specific case. The panel discusses the red flags to raise awareness to help stop this from happening again.