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A book designed to help very young children who live, or are going to live, with family or friends.

Social worker and psychotherapist, Katie Wrench, shares an introduction to the importance of developmentally-appropriate life story work.

Over a 25-year period Kate and Brian Cairns, along with their three birth children, fostered 12 children ranging in age from four to 15 at the time of joining the family.

Dr Karen Treisman MBE gives an introduction to the benefits of using creative approaches to life story work when we’re working alongside children seeking asylum or those from refugee backgrounds.

A thoughtful picture book about the importance of memories, identity and knowing who you are.

Our most popular Creative Life Story Work resources for social workers, foster carers, Therapeutic Life Story Workers, and anyone who works with care-experienced children and young people.

Why play really matters, and 101 ways to get more of it in your life.

Find out how using words and pictures as part of routine social work can make it possible to explain complex situations to very young children.

Creative Life Story Work is created and managed by Blue Cabin – a charity which focuses all its work on care experienced people. Blue Cabin director, Jenny Young, tells the story of how Creative Life Story Work was developed.

This new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge about children’s emotional development.

Key insights from Professor Richard Rose on trauma: its impact on children and young people, and how we can support them to move forward.