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Can AI improve how we care for children and young people?

Kelly Royds explores how AI offers promising support for professionals in child-facing sectors by easing admin burdens, but its use in client documentation poses serious ethical and privacy risks.

Empowered Consent: The shift towards affirmative

Affirmative consent is key to supporting young people. CETC is excited to launch our new "When Yes Means YES" course to help carers and professionals navigate trauma-informed consent conversations.

Building digital resilience: a relationship-based approach to online safety in out-of-home care

Young people in out-of-home care face unique challenges online. The Online Safety Practice Guide equips carers and professionals with practical, relationship-based strategies to foster trust, support digital resilience, and empower young people to navigate the online world with confidence.

Learning from Lived Experience What do young people say needs to change in therapeutic residential care?

Surviving (and sometimes thriving) as a kinship carer

Noel takes an honest look at the challenges and rewards of being a kinship carer, exploring the everyday realities of raising children who have experienced trauma. Through the complexities and exhaustion of daily care, the kinship care role can be deeply rewarding, fulfilling, and bring unexpected joys to life.

Caring for carers: Why foster carer well-being and role satisfaction matter

Supporting foster carer well-being is key to a stable and nurturing care system. In this blog, PhD student Amy Miko reflects on the journey that led her to research kinship carer role satisfaction and retention.