This guide offers a calm, precise reframing of care in schools. It shows how care fails not through lack of compassion, but through poor placement. When concern slips from systems onto individuals, goodwill turns into overload and burnout. The strength of the guide is its clarity. Care is treated as a structural condition, not emotional labour or personal heroics. The contrasts between absorbed care and shared care are recognisable and uncomfortable in the right way. Leaders, teachers, and support staff will see their own patterns reflected without feeling blamed. The practical value sits in the boundaries, routes, and pacing that allow care to endure under pressure. This is not a wellbeing programme. It is a design lens that protects people by putting care where it belongs.