Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made the potential impact of the implementation of guidance on trauma-informed practice on staff (a) culture and (b) practice.

No assessment has been made. NHS England published their trauma-informed and harm aware in-patient care guidance in October 2025, and it is avaiable at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/trauma-informed-harm-aware-inpatient-care/

The guidance supports National Health Service staff working in mental health, learning disability, and autism inpatient settings to make services more trauma-informed and harm aware.

Also available to NHS staff is an e-learning module which focuses on trauma-informed care and supporting the workforce to be more trauma sensitive in the way care is delivered, with the aim of fostering a trauma sensitive culture. Further information on the e-learning module is avaiable at the following link:

https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/trauma-informed-care/