Trauma-Awareness, Trauma-Informed and Trauma-Regulation
How TRB training, research, and trauma-regulated tools shape our everyday practice—supporting more robust, defensible assessments and better outcomes for children and families.
- TRB advocates for standards across public-facing services
- 6-hour online trauma-awareness course (TRB)
- 1-year TRB registration on completion
- All Hawkins practitioners are TRB-registered
The Trauma Regulation Board (TRB) advocates for clear standards that support the public, service users, professionals and systems.
TRB delivers a 6-hour online trauma-awareness course. Completion includes one year of registration on a public TRB register.
Our practice is informed by research, lived experience insights, and trauma-regulated tools designed to strengthen assessment quality.
TRB provides the trauma-awareness course and maintains the public practitioner register. Visit TRB accreditation .
This page outlines how we use trauma-awareness training, trauma science, and trauma-regulated tools to strengthen assessments and support high-quality decision-making in children’s services.
The Trauma Regulation Board (TRB) is an organisation advocating on behalf of the public, service users, professionals and systems to introduce standards at all levels of service provision to public-facing services.
TRB has introduced a 6-hour online trauma-awareness course for practitioners aimed at raising awareness of trauma and trauma science, and supporting best practice.
On completion, professionals receive one year of registration with TRB on a public register.
All practitioners working for, or on behalf of, Hawkins Social Work Consultancy Limited have completed this training and are registered with TRB.
Alongside training, we have undertaken extensive research into trauma, trauma science, and the lived experiences of service users, parents and carers in statutory Children’s Social Care.
This work informs the forthcoming book, “A Guide to Trauma Regulated Social Work with Children: Building a Framework for Practice”, which critically analyses service provision and practice—from legislation and guidance through to assessment and lived experience—and provides usable knowledge for practitioners.
The book includes appendices that provide practical tools and a trauma-informed assessment framework, designed to place trauma-informed practice at the centre of service delivery—from practitioners through to inspection.
Through developing the framework, we have introduced tools that support assessments to be more objective, robust and defensible, with clearer links between trauma knowledge, behaviour and presentation.
In addition, we have co-authored TRB Trauma-Regulated General Standards (to be published in the coming months), and contributed to Practice Standards, Code and Practice Guidance for Children’s Social Work, which will be published in conjunction with the upcoming book.
Through completion of training, ongoing research, and the development of trauma-regulated tools and frameworks, we incorporate this knowledge into everyday practice—supporting trauma-aware, trauma-informed and trauma-regulated work across our services.
We advertise TRB trauma-awareness training options for different professions. Training is delivered by TRB and includes registration.
If you’d like to understand how our trauma-aware and trauma-regulated approach informs assessments, reporting and recommendations, please get in touch.