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Trauma-Informed Record Keeping – Adults by Trauma Informed Consultancy Services (TICS) is a practical guide and toolkit designed to help professionals write accurate, legally sound, and dignified records. Moving away from stigmatising shorthand and compliance-focused labels, this guide equips social workers, healthcare staff, housing officers, and support workers with 13 ready-to-adapt templates, a language check framework, and the CLEAR case-note standard. Ensure defensible decision-making while honouring adult autonomy, choice, and rights - written with the person, and future readers, in mind. Includes 12 months of digital access and updates.
Designed by Trauma Informed Consultancy Services (TICS), Trauma-Informed Record Keeping – Adults is a practical guide and toolkit created to transform how practitioners document interactions, assessments, and decisions involving adults.
Records are never neutral - they directly impact how individuals are understood, what services they can access, and how risk is evaluated. This guide provides non-clinical practitioners, social care staff, housing officers, and healthcare professionals with the tools to write accurate, defensive, and legally sound notes while preserving adult dignity, autonomy, and rights.
What’s Inside
| Feature | Description |
| 13 Ready-to-Adapt Templates |
Includes case notes, safeguarding records, decision logs, person-voice logs, information-sharing records, and audit tools. |
| The CLEAR Case-Note Standard |
A quick, reliable structure for writing notes: Context, Language, Evidence, Action, and Review. |
| Language Bank & Checks |
Practical swaps to eliminate loaded, compliance-based labels (e.g., "non-compliant", "manipulative", "frequent flyer") in favor of specific, observable facts. |
| Complex Practice Scenarios |
Actionable guidance on documenting capacity assessments, domestic abuse, coercion, self-neglect, mental distress, and adult safeguarding. |
| Implementation & Audit Tools |
Features team recording agreements, reflective supervision prompts, and a 30-minute team learning activity. |
Who It's For
Social Work & Adult Services: Social workers, family support practitioners, and safeguarding leads.
Housing & Homelessness: Housing officers, hostel staff, and tenancy support workers.
Healthcare & Mental Health: Care workers, nursing staff, occupational therapists, and primary care teams.
Criminal Justice & Advocacy: Independent advocates, domestic abuse workers, and support staff.
Key Benefits
Future-Reader Focused: Teaches you to write records that hold up legally and professionally while remaining respectful if read by the adult themselves under subject access rights.
Distinguishes Fact from Opinion: Shows clearly how to separate direct observation, third-party reports, professional interpretation, and actions.
Promotes Defensible Decision-Making: Helps practitioners document positive risk-taking, capacity, consent, and best-interests choices with clarity.
Enjoy 12 full months of continuous digital access to The Regulation Toolkit. Your purchase includes instant digital access and all downloadable toolkit updates released over the next year at no extra cost. Print and download any of the included worksheets, menus, and reflective tools whenever you need them throughout your 12-month access period.
