“…This is because participating in leisure activities can have a normalizing influence (Quarmby et al, ) and because promoting prosocial behaviour develops resilience, social competence leading to self‐confidence, self‐respect, and self‐esteem in a residential setting (Lou, Taylor, & Di Folco, ; Luksik & Hargasova, ). Having said this, it is also equally important to note that being able to access “a community of value” is complicated particularly for those children and young people in residential child care who experience feelings of loss, grief, betrayal of trust, emotional pain, are traumatized, isolation, anxiety, shame and of having no control, joy, or hope, and dislocated from their families and their local communities (Jackson, McKenzie, & Frederico, , p. 105). Anglin () argues that in this regard, an essential role for residential child care is to create bridging experiences internally in settings as a stepping stone to supporting children and young people to build bridges externally with communities of value.…”