Enabling a Therapeutic Approach Within Residential Services
How Studio 3 helped a specialist provider of residential care for Looked After Children embed a trauma-informed approach, reducing restrictive practices, building staff confidence and sustaining therapeutic placements.
Key outcomes at a glance
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Placement breakdown rate, a third of the national average
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Trauma-informed framework embedded across all staff
Restrictive practices minimised
across the service
Our role
Studio 3 was brought in by a specialist provider of residential care for Looked After Children to deliver staff training and clinical support. The provider chose Studio 3 based on our track record in Looked After Children's care settings and our established work with foster carers over a number of years.
Staff training in trauma-informed approaches
Consultation around complex individual needs and shared formulations
Ongoing clinical support from a Studio 3 Clinical Psychologist
Support for reflective practice across the staff team
Our approach
The provider is committed to a therapeutic approach to the children and young people in its care, and to minimising restrictive practices. Studio 3 trained all staff in our SSRR framework: Safety, Stability, Repair and Resilience, a structured trauma-informed care model built for complex residential settings.
Alongside training, a Studio 3 Clinical Psychologist consults regularly with staff, working with them to develop shared formulations that draw on their direct experience of the young people and are grounded in an understanding of each young person's life history.
This isn't top-down clinical advice. It's collaborative thinking that puts staff knowledge at the centre.
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SSRR Trauma-Informed Care training for all staff
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Regular clinical consultation with a Studio 3 Clinical Psychologist
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Shared formulations built from staff experience and life history insight
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Reflective practice embedded as a regular team habit
The impact
Staff are embedding SSRR training in their day-to-day practice with young people
Reflective practice is strengthening the team's ability to tailor support to each young person
Clinical consultation is deepening staff understanding of individual young people's needs
Restrictive practices have been minimised across the service
Reflective practice is strengthening the team's ability to tailor support to each young person
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A third of the national average
The placement breakdown rate in residential children's services that Studio 3 works with is a third of the national average, a direct result of sustained therapeutic support and staff development.
Why this matters
Looked After Children and young people with complex needs are at real risk of placement breakdown, and the consequences of that are significant for the young person, the service and the wider system.
Specialist training, clinical support and consistent consultation give residential homes and their staff the tools to maintain a therapeutic approach under pressure.
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That consistency is what enables positive outcomes. And it is only possible when the people doing the work every day feel equipped, supported and genuinely understood in what they are dealing with.