This paper examines how provincial‐level policy innovation in China is reshaping educational access for migrant children, focusing on Sichuan's 2024 Implementation Plan for Strengthening the Care and Protection of Migrant Children. Rather than viewing the 2024 Plan in isolation, the analysis locates it within the evolving trajectory of China's hukou household registration reform and rural–urban labour migration. By tracing the link between national policy changes and demographic responses, it highlights how macro‐level reforms created new conditions for local policy experimentation. It analyses both the Plan's emergence and its structural components. The plan is interpreted as a locally grounded effort to integrate previously disjointed services into a coordinated system, shaped by both top‐down directives and local problem‐solving. This case illustrates how provincial initiatives can function as adaptive strategies to national policy shifts, yet remain embedded in structural and legal constraints. The paper further reflects on the challenges of applying Western‐derived policy frameworks in non‐Western contexts. Drawing on comparative scholarship in postcolonial political theory, it calls for more contextually attuned approaches—ones that recognise the distinctive logic of Chinese governance, rather than evaluating it through universalist assumptions.

Despite practice models of trauma-informed care (TIC) emphasizing relational engagement and emotional attunement as critical to service delivery, the role of individual dispositions in shaping staff perceptions and behavior remains underexplored. This study examined how rejection sensitivity, a construct grounded in attachment theory, defined as a dispositional tendency to anxiously expect and overreact to perceived rejection, may influence staff perceptions of their roles and client relationships in residential mental health agencies implementing TIC. We further explored whether individual and organizational factors, including job satisfaction, prior trauma training, perceived isolation at work, and trauma-related knowledge, contribute to these associations. Regression analyses were conducted on survey data from 155 frontline staff across three agencies testing the associations between rejection sensitivity and two relational outcomes: perceptions of work and of clients. Higher rejection sensitivity was significantly associated with more disengaged perceptions of work and less empathic views of clients, even after controlling for demographic and contextual organizational variables. Job satisfaction and trauma knowledge emerged as domain-specific protective factors, reducing the negative impact of rejection sensitivity. The findings underscore the importance of addressing staff relational dispositions to sustain effective TIC implementation. Enhancing job satisfaction and trauma knowledge may help support staff engagement in trauma-informed practice.