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#22 Reimagining Children's Homes: From Last Resort to Purposeful Healing, with Kevin Gallagher
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What does it really mean to provide therapeutic residential care to traumatised young people? Dr Kevin Gallagher draws from three decades of experience to challenge our assumptions about children's homes and how we use them.
Kevin's journey from banking to social work, driven by his own experiences of exclusion and inequality, mirrors the evolution of UK residential care itself. His candid reflections reveal how sophisticated practice develops through mentorship, theoretical understanding, and lived experience.
At the heart of this conversation lies a provocative question…
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