The panel reflects on their own experiences of how they perceive professionalism within residential care and discusses whether professionalism may be lacking at times. Consequently not reflecting the authenticity of the industry.

Grab yourself a choc ice and enjoy the episode.

This month we take a stroll down memory lane and recall some of the best times spent making memories and sharing the benefits of spending time away with the children living in your home on a holiday and we don't mean for a 'break' in trauma responses (behaviour) but an actual holiday to have fun and build on interpersonal relationships.

This episode finds the panel discussing the importance of continued professional development (CPD) within children's residential care. CPD allows you to not only grow as a professional and individual but will enable you to help better support children in a mind-minded way. Furthermore, this is an ofsted requirement to the success of children's homes and therapeutic communities.

This episode looks at the challenges and successes of what it can feel like to be a male in the children's residential sector.

The panel discusses their top 10 reasons why working in children's residential care is so rewarding, as a professional but also as a human. We hope this episode can encourage more people to enter this amazing industry and feel what we feel. We also hope to remind existing professionals of the beauty of working with some of the most inspiring children going.

In this episode, the panel talk about burnout and the real impact it can have on individuals, a team and your children. A subject close to the heart of the panel members, they discuss their own experiences to start to reduce stigmas around the topic in our sector and to begin to raise awareness among listeners to be able to better protect individuals' well-being for them to continue to help our children.

This episode sees the panel exploring the challenges faced with the language used in children's residential care homes and whether this reflects an authentic childhood experience.

The panel will discuss a safeguarding practice review (previously a serious case review) on a children's residential specific case. The panel discusses the red flags to raise awareness to help stop this from happening again.

Introduction to the panel and insight into future episodes.