Vision Statement

TRB exists to protect the public by setting, monitoring, and enforcing standards of education, training, ethics, and competence in trauma-focused care across health, justice, education, and community sectors.

Our vision is to create a society where trauma is recognised, regulated, and addressed across all systems ,ensuring safety, recovery, and dignity for every individual.

Vision
A society where trauma is recognised, regulated, and repaired.

Mission
Protecting the public by setting and enforcing trauma-care standards.

Purpose
Replacing compliance with lived safety and measurable change.

Mission in Motion

The Trauma Regulation Board (TRB) sets enforceable trauma standards across social care, mental health, psychiatry, criminal justice, family courts, and private practice. Through research, training, regulation, and advocacy, we aim to transform professional practice so that no individual is retraumatised by the very systems meant to protect them.

What we do:

1. Regulation & Standards

  • Develop and implement statutory trauma-informed standards for practitioners and organisations.

  • Audit practice against trauma concordance metrics, including proportionality, delay-is-harm, and least-intrusive intervention.

  • Create enforceable codes of practice that align ethics with lived safety.

2. Education & Training

  • Deliver accredited training and CPD programmes based on the tri-phasic model of recovery.

  • Support practitioners across disciplines - from frontline social workers to psychiatrists and judges - to embed trauma awareness into decision-making.

  • Partner with universities, NHS bodies, and professional associations to embed trauma modules into core curricula.

3. Tools & Frameworks

  • Provide auditable tools such as the TI-ETHICS 2.0 framework, Delay-is-Harm Index (DHI), and trauma-focused assessment models.

  • Design operational dashboards that track trauma concordance and ethical debt reduction.

  • Pilot and refine trauma-informed pathways in collaboration with local authorities and statutory partners.

4. Research & Policy Influence

  • Lead on the development of dimensional, trauma-informed classification systems (ICD-12, DSM-6 reform).

  • Partner with government, regulators, and commissioners to embed trauma-informed governance in statutory inspection frameworks.

  • Produce publishable evaluations to demonstrate measurable impact on safety, outcomes, and costs.

5. Public Protection

  • Hold a public register of trauma-trained and regulated practitioners.

  • Offer transparent complaints and fitness-to-practise processes.

  • Ensure survivors and service users have a voice in shaping regulation and holding systems accountable.

5. Public Protection

We believe that trauma-focused practice is the final frontier of reform across human services. For too long, trauma has been the missing variable in social care, mental health, and justice systems. TRB exists to close this gap by:

  • Protecting the public from avoidable harm.

  • Raising professional standards to 0.0.1% excellence.

  • Embedding trauma-informed concordance into both service delivery and organisational operations.

  • Expanding our trauma training approvals framework to raise national standards

  • Developing NHS-compliant

  • Service specification packs for Local Authorities, ICSs, and Trusts

Bringing Regulation and Safety to the Public

Advisory Board Highlights

Our multi-disciplinary advisory board includes leaders in psychiatry, neuroscience, social care, and forensic psychology. We meet quarterly to review development, ethical priorities, and public safety impact.


Recent Highlights – Q2 2025:

Approved draft supervision standards for peer-practitioner tiers

Piloted NHS partnership model for TRIM clinical tool licensing

Initiated legislative pathway research for trauma regulation inclusion in Health & Social Care Act

Summaries (not full minutes) are shared here each quarter to ensure ethical transparency and stakeholder trust.

Minutes from meeting

Authority stats

Results and experience

Driving Growth, Amplifying Impact

The Trauma Regulation Board (TRB) is more than a regulatory body, it’s a live, evolving initiative shaping the future of trauma-informed practice in the UK and beyond. This page gives our members, partners, and the public a transparent window into our progress, future plans, and governance structures.

Setting the Benchmark for Safety, Integrity, and Public Confidence

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