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For children and young people who have experienced trauma, Exam Results Day can mean much more than the grades written on a piece of paper.

Many care-experienced and trauma-experienced children have faced disruption to their education. They may have changed schools, experienced periods of absence, struggled to concentrate or learn while coping with trauma, or simply not had the same opportunities as their peers. When results arrive, those experiences can suddenly feel very visible.

In this episode of TRIBE Talk, Laura Neal and Rachel Evans explore how parents and carers can support children who may not achieve the results they hoped for — particularly when trauma and missed education have shaped their educational journey.

We discuss managing expectations, recognising the progress that exam grades don't capture, responding sensitively to disappointment, avoiding comparisons with other young people, and helping your child look towards what comes next.

Most importantly, we explore how to make sure Exam Results Day doesn't become another experience that tells a young person they have failed, when their journey to get there may already have required extraordinary resilience.

Whatever is written on that results sheet, their story is bigger than their grades.

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