Supporting Children Through Christmas | Trauma-Informed Staff Training Pack for Children’s Homes

Christmas can bring excitement, but for children living in residential care it can also intensify grief, uncertainty, divided loyalties, sensory overload and memories of earlier experiences.

The Supporting Children Through Christmas Training Pack gives children’s-home managers everything needed to deliver a practical, trauma-informed staff session without purchasing expensive training for every team member.

The pack includes:

• 23-slide editable PowerPoint presentation

• 21-page facilitator guide and workbook

• Five interactive team activities

• Individual Christmas support-plan template

• December pressure-mapping activity

• Family-time and cancellation case study

• PACE-based language and response guidance

• Sensory, communication and developmental adaptations

• Christmas-period shift briefing

• Reflective team debrief

• Knowledge check and answer guide

• Attendance sheet and completion certificate

The training helps staff understand why behaviour can change during the festive period and how to respond with curiosity, predictability and connection while maintaining safe boundaries.

It covers family time, presents, disrupted routines, identity, faith, inclusion, staff consistency and responding when plans go wrong.

The session can be delivered in 60–90 minutes, with an extended 120-minute workshop option.

You will receive editable PowerPoint and Word files together with a printable A4 PDF. The pack can be adapted for your children, home and organisational procedures.

Suitable for registered managers, deputy managers, team leaders and residential childcare staff.

Digital product available for immediate download.

This is an independent professional-development resource. It is not accredited training and is not produced, approved or endorsed by Ofsted. A single-home internal training licence is included.