The Secure Start® Podcast
The Secure Start® Podcast
Podcast Description
In the same way that a secure base is the springboard for the growth of the child, knowledge of past endeavours and lessons learnt are the springboard for growth in current and future endeavours.If we do not revisit the lessons of the past we are doomed to relearning them over and over again, with the result that we may never really achieve a greater potential.In keeping with the idea we are encouraged to be the person we wished we knew when we were starting out, it is my vision for the podcast that it is a place where those who work in child protection and out-of-home care can access what is/was already known, spring-boarding them to even greater insights.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores critical themes in child protection, including effective therapeutic practices, family reunification, and historical lessons in out-of-home care. Episodes feature discussions on specific topics such as the impact of trauma on children and innovative approaches to foster care, illustrated through the experiences shared by guests like John Whitwell and Sally Rhodes.
In the same way that a secure base is the springboard for the growth of the child, knowledge of past endeavours and lessons learnt are the springboard for growth in current and future endeavours.
If we do not revisit the lessons of the past we are doomed to relearning them over and over again, with the result that we may never really achieve a greater potential.
In keeping with the idea we are encouraged to be the person we wished we knew when we were starting out, it is my vision for the podcast that it is a place where those who work in child protection and out-of-home care can access what is/was already known, spring-boarding them to even greater insights.
Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. I am Colby Pearce, and joining me for this episode is a longstanding and highly respected figure in the world of therapeutic residential communities and practice in the UK and beyond.
Before I introduce my guest, I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land I am meeting on, the Kaurna people, and the continuing connection they and other aboriginal people feel to land, waters, culture, and community. I would also like to pay my respects to their elders past, present, and emerging.
My guest this episode is Richard Rollinson.
Richard’s Bio
Richard was, until 31 December 2019, the Director of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust and remains an Independent Consultant in the fields of Therapeutic Child Care, Education and Mental Health across the voluntary, statutory and private sectors.
Richard has a long association with Residential Therapeutic Communities, having worked at the Mulberry Bush School for well over 20 years and where, from 1991 to 2001, he was its Director. He was also Director, Children and Young People, at the Peper Harow Foundation, from 2001 to 2005.
Amongst his activities in this field, he worked for many years with The Department of Social Welfare [Seguranca Social] in Portugal to support the development of Specialist Therapeutic Residential Communities across the country. He continues to work in a consultant role with several organisations in Ireland and Portugal.
Richard qualified as a Social Worker with an MSc from Oxford University in 1983, following the then Part 1 training in Child Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Centre. In 2005 he completed the Ashridge MA and training in Organisational Consulting. He has been Chairman of the Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities and for many years the Chairman of the Care Leavers’ Foundation. In 2014 he became Chair of Trustees at the Mulberry Bush School, only recently stepping down from that position, while remaining a Trustee with a special brief for the links and development of the contacts with and participation of former pupils. He has published numerous articles and continues to lecture widely across the UK and Europe.
Over 35 years he has undertaken numerous Serious Case Reviews into the deaths of, or serious harm sustained by children and adolescents as well as Service Inquiries into organisations providing care and treatment for vulnerable populations. He was also involved in The Commission of Inquiry into Historical Child Abuse in Ireland and contributed a Chapter [Vol. 5, Ch. 6] to the Final Ryan Commission Report in 2009.
We hope you like our chat.
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