Building Underdeveloped Sensorimotor Systems (BUSS) for children

Overview

Join us to hear about the Building Underdeveloped Sensorimotor Systems (BUSS) brief intervention for children who have experienced disruption to their early development and bodily regulation – including care experienced children living in foster or residential care, kinship care or with adoptive parents.

In this session, we will hear from the experts and experts by experience about why this intervention is needed, what it involves and how local authorities, regional adoption agencies and other services can provide or help families to access it. We will also hear about 3 children’s individual journeys into and through BUSS and findings from a recent large scale research project about the positive effects of BUSS on children and families.

Audience

This webinar will be particularly relevant to service leaders, commissioners and practitioners working with care experienced children in local authorities and regional adoption agencies.

Agenda

The webinar will be facilitated by IPC’s Assistant Director, Professor Katy Burch, in conversation with:

Sarah Lloyd – Consultant Occupational Therapist and BUSS developer
Dr Helen Close – lead researcher for the recent BUSS evaluation
Parents whose children have experienced BUSS and who have become parent mentors
Practitioners providing BUSS in their local areas.

Meet Our Speakers

Professor Katy Burch

Assistant Director

IPC

Katy is part of the IPC management team and leads on applied research and evaluation for the Institute. Formerly a child care lawyer, she has extensive knowledge of children and families services across the UK. Katy has many years’ experience of leading evaluation, review and consultancy support for national government, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations.

Sarah Lloyd

Consultant Occupational Therapist

Consultant

Sarah is a Consultant Occupational Therapist who developed the BUSS Model after 25 years of working in CAMHS. Building Underdeveloped Sensorimotor Systems (BUSS) is a relationally based model, supporting the people in a child's life to have the understanding, skills and help to support the development of a child's foundation sensorimotor systems where there has been disruption or adversity in the early years of their life. Sarah is passionate about the role that good bodily regulation has in giving children a foundation for relating, play and learning. More information about BUSS can be found on the website - www.bussmodel.org

Katie Wrench

Head of Clinical Services

BUSS

Katie is a Therapeutic Social Worker and Art Psychotherapist with extensive experience working with care-experienced children and young people. Katie first heard about BUSS while managing a Local Authority Therapeutic Social Work Team and supported integrating the model and considering bodily regulation, into the team's practice. Katie is now Head of Clinical Services for BUSS and manages the Clinical Service, works directly with children and families as an Accredited BUSS Practitioner, and delivers training and supervision to practitioners and trainees. Katie also delivers training in Therapeutic Life Story Work to professionals, organisations, and parents/carers and has published four books related to life story work and creative therapeutic practice: https://www.blossomsocialcaretraining.co.uk/store/

Dr Helen Close

Principal Research Associate

Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University

Helen is part of the NIHR Research Support Service team (RSS Hub Newcastle and Partners), leading on hub-level social care research strategy. Formerly a community and hospice nurse, she has expertise in a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods including trial design and delivery in adult health and care settings. Motivated by her experiences as an adoptive parent carer, she has recently moved into social care research and is delivering a programme of research to improve the lives of adopted and care-experienced children and their families.

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