The Kindness Code

What is the Kindness Code? This week we flipped the script. Chelsea Bailey took the mic and put me in the hot seat to talk about why I created the Kindness Code, and all about the podcast and the app. Hosted on Acast...

"I am who I am, and that's it. I like me. Me is okay." That's Louise Allen -Sunday Times bestselling author, foster carer, and founder of Spark Sisterhood, a charity supporting girls leaving care. A care leaver herself...

The consensus in children's services is that foster care is preferable because it offers a family setting. But whose definition of family are we using? This episode challenges one of the most quiet assumptions in our...

Nobody taught them what they feel. because nobody ever sat with them and said: that feeling in your chest? That's anger. That one? That's sad. That one? That's love. That one? That's excitement. / Andy Baker made a...

Four homes. Three schools. Two surnames. How does a looked after child answer the question "who are you?” - and what happens when nobody helps them figure it out? This episode makes the case that identity is one of...

This is so important. Please share this with anyone who works in children’s homes, foster care, education, or anywhere around children who have been let down by adults. Loved this convo with Jane Keenan - she has 37...

<p>The 2am shift: therapeutic parenting when you're exhausted, understaffed and on your own</p><p> </p><p>It's 2am. A young person is in crisis. You've been on shift for nine hours. And someone in your training told you...

<p>"I didn't leave the care system. The care system left me."</p><p> </p><p>Sam Gardner spent 21 years in care. He now delivers transformative talks and training for those supporting care-experienced children -and is...

<p>What makes a house feel like home for a child in care?</p><p>In this episode, we explore how emotional safety, consistent relationships, and everyday moments of connection create a true sense of belonging. Because a...

<p>You know when you buy a new car, and suddenly you see the same car everywhere?</p><p> </p><p> The cars haven’t magically multiplied.</p><p> </p><p> Your brain has just started noticing what you’ve told it to look...

<p>More than a label </p><p> </p><p>This week on The Kindness Code, we’re joined by Bethaney Dixon.</p><p> </p><p>From lived experience to building a movement…</p><p> </p><p>Bethaney shares how her own journey through...

<p>Managing disclosures: when a child tells you something big</p><p>It rarely happens when you expect it.</p><p>It happens in the car. At the sink. Mid-cartoon. In the silence after a hard day — when a child finally...

<p>A new placement. A new school. A new key worker. A new bedtime.</p><p>For most children, transitions are uncomfortable. For looked after children, they can feel catastrophic — and the behaviour that follows is almost...

<p>Children don't behave in challenging ways "just because." Behaviour is communication — their voice when words fail.</p><p>In this episode, Carmel and Chelsea unpack what it means to treat behaviour as a message...

<p>In this episode, Carmel and Chelsea explore one of the most important ideas in residential childcare: connection not correction.</p><p>When a child is dysregulated, correction doesn't reach them - because they don't...