Live, online training on talking about difficult things with children and young people.
Tickets cost £50 for non-members
Led by Polly Baynes
Join life story expert, Polly Baynes, to explore how we can tell life stories when difficult topics – like drink, drugs and violence – are involved.
This session is for anyone whose role includes explaining things to children in the context of child protection.
“I found the whole session beneficial and interesting.”
Polly has been involved with life story work with children for 36 years in a variety of roles, including as a residential social worker, local authority social worker, children’s guardian, independent social worker, clinical supervisor and independent trainer. She is the author of the Research in Practice Life Story Work Practice Guide and developed and delivered Research in Practice’s 2022 national training programme in life story work. In 2017, Polly was awarded a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to Australia to learn more about their approach to life story work, contact and kinship care. She is currently studying for a Phd, looking at how social work understands its own story and makes sense of this in working with families.
This session will be held via Zoom.
We would encourage you to read this document for advice on how to access zoom particularly if you haven’t accessed zoom before. If you are planning on attending via a work device, you may need to seek access permission in advance.
You will receive a zoom link to access the live classroom at least 48hours before the live classroom takes place.
Feel free to contact us prior to the scheduled event date if you have any specific questions or requirements relating to access.
We are grateful to have received core funding from Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Segelman Trust and the Sir James Knott Trust.
