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Models & System Change
Turning lived experience, professional practice and research into meaningful change
"You cannot criminalise people into stability."
Care Leavers Cymru develops trauma-informed models, frameworks and practical approaches designed to improve outcomes for care-experienced children and young people.
Our work looks beyond individual services and considers how systems can identify care experience earlier, understand the needs beneath behaviour, prevent unnecessary criminalisation and provide consistent relational support.
Founder Jayne Tanti brings together lived experience of care, more than 18 years of professional practice, national research and specialist work across children’s services and criminal justice.
This expertise has led to work alongside His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, the Ministry of Justice, local authorities, police services and national partners to influence policy, strengthen professional practice and develop more connected responses for care-experienced children and young adults.
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National Work
HMPPS
National work focused on care experience in custody, corporate parenting, resettlement and trauma-informed professional practice.
Jayne Tanti has worked alongside His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service’s Care-Experienced Policy Team, contributing lived and professional expertise to national work focused on improving support for care-experienced people in custody and the community.
This work has included:
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Identifying care experience consistently and sensitively
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Strengthening corporate parenting in prisons and probation
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Improving communication between local authorities and criminal justice agencies
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Supporting Personal Advisers to remain involved during custody
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Developing trauma-informed and relational practice
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Improving resettlement and preventing avoidable recall
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Ensuring identity, belonging and emotional safety are recognised alongside practical needs
Jayne has also been commissioned by the Ministry of Justice to contribute to the development of a national protocol aimed at reducing the unnecessary criminalisation of care-experienced children and young people in England.
Her contribution brings together lived experience, professional practice, research and the Diversion & Early Intervention Framework to help translate national principles into practical action.
The work recognises that behaviour cannot be understood in isolation. Trauma, disrupted attachment, exploitation, unmet need, identity, belonging and experiences of the care system must all be considered when professionals decide how to respond
Ministry of Justice
Commissioned to contribute to the national protocol aimed at reducing the unnecessary criminalisation of care-experienced children and young people.
The TIRE Model
Developed by Jayne Tanti, the TIRE Model is a biopsychosocial, whole-person model with two connected aspects.
The first develops trauma-informed, relational and empowering professional practice. The second supports children and young people to understand trauma, strengthen identity and belonging, know their rights, build safe relationships, recover and access their entitlements.
The model recognises that when professional practice changes, children and young people experience support differently.
Diversion & Early Intervention Framework
Developed by Jayne Tanti, the framework helps professionals identify and respond to the trauma, unmet need, exploitation, identity and belonging that may sit beneath behaviour, preventing unnecessary criminalisation and creating routes into support.