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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 – Children is an operational guide and practical toolkit created to transform how practitioners document interactions, assessments, and safeguarding decisions involving babies, children, and young people under 18.
Records are never neutral. The words written in case files directly influence safeguarding assessments, multi-agency thresholds, placement decisions, and future support—and they shape how a young person understands their own story when reading their files later in life. This toolkit equips frontline practitioners with the tools to write accurate, legally defensible, and evidence-grounded notes while protecting the child’s dignity, voice, and rights.
What’s Inside
| Feature | Description |
| 11 Ready-to-Adapt Tools |
Ready-to-use templates covering core case notes, safeguarding disclosures, chronologies, decision/rationale logs, child voice and AAC participation, information sharing, handovers, addenda/corrections, and record audit frameworks. |
| The CLEAR Case-Note Standard |
A five-part structure to audit records before saving: Context, Language, Evidence, Action, and Review. |
| Four-Part Information Separation |
A clear framework to separate Direct Observation, Third-Party Reports, Professional Interpretation, and Decisions/Actions—preventing hypotheses from being recorded as established facts. |
| Trauma-Informed Language Bank |
Specific phrasing swaps to replace stigmatising labels (e.g., "attention seeking", "manipulative", "defiant", "chaotic family") with observable, objective facts and contextual nuance. |
| Specialist Guidance for Complex Practice |
Clear protocols for capturing non-verbal/AAC communication, recording after safeguarding disclosures without interrogating, documenting relational repair alongside rupture, writing about parents respectfully, and recording healthy professional uncertainty. |
Who It's For
Key Benefits
Your purchase includes instant digital access to the complete Trauma-Informed Record Keeping – Children guide and toolkit. All included templates, worksheets, and audit checklists can be downloaded and adapted for your organisation's specific record-keeping systems and local procedures.
