Exploring perspectives of whole‐school attachment and trauma aware approaches in a specialist provision

A recent focus on attachment and trauma awareness (ATA) in schools has led to whole-school training programmes evaluations. The outcomes have been positive; however, the dominant of research is implementation ATA mainstream settings. This project adopted a case study explore how approaches had implemented school community, including special pupil referral units. Data were collected from three semi-structured interviews with staff varying roles, views 11 pupils obtained via classroom activity as supplementary data. Thematic analysis highlighted five key themes which directly answered questions, namely: strategies used; outcomes; facilitators implementation; barriers improvements. It hoped that this will help further professional understanding non-mainstream implications limitations are discussed.