To ask the Minister of Health for an update of the work that the Safeguarding Board of Northern Ireland is doing to implement and facilitate the adoption of trauma informed practice.

Since March 2018 the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland (SBNI) has led a change delivery programme to embed a better understanding of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma-informed thinking across health, education, social care, justice, housing, local government and voluntary sectors. By March 2021, the project had achieved all of its original objectives, including the roll out of ACE awareness and trauma sensitive approaches to Practice Training, the establishment of a Train-the-Trainer Programme and enabling organisations to share good practice through engaging with the ‘Be the Change’ Leadership Programme.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the SBNI has continued to work to embed an ACE/Trauma Informed culture and practices. The latest report on the Trauma Informed Practice Project is available at TIP - April to September 2021.