Life story work - Learning and Development courses

• to help carers and workers think about the importance of life story work and how they might undertake this
• an accurate and truthful account of the child's early life to act as tools for adoptive parents and carers in the process of sharing their life
• to understand the importance of integrating the past into the future and enable the child to make sense whilst giving context and understanding to the past
• create a beginning on which to continue to build as the child grows and develops
• a springboard for the child to ask further questions, make comments and explore their past with their adoptive parents and carers or residential worker
• the opportunity to fill in the gaps of a child's memory with anecdotal information which would normally be lost if this work was not undertaken
• to help fulfil the need to know what has gone on before and consolidate thoughts and feelings
• to look at guidance around letters for later life

• residential staff
• foster carers
• family practitioners
• social workers

• Monday 11 November 2024 - 9.30am to 4.30pm
• Monday 3 February 2025 - 9.30am to 4.30pm

Hull City Council Staff

Log on to OLM (Oracle Learning Management System) to enrol.

External to Hull City Council

Complete the online application form (opens in a new window).