Ever wondered about the impact of life story work for children? www.buzzsprout.com/2422439/epis... 🌟 #SocialWork #HealingJourney #ChildWellbeing #curiosity #PonderingPlayAndTherapy
Join our next expert-led training with @katiewrench.bsky.social for #adoptionpractitioners
A Framework for Therapeutic Life Story Work in Adoption: Building Safety into Difficult Conversations
Secure your place: bit.ly/4l4DjsC
Lovely to be back in Bristol training again with a great group of social workers and family support workers. They’re really investing in #lifestorywork and I’ve been happy to support with developing practice guidance. And the sun is shining.
Book of the month! Skills and Knowledge for Life Story Work with Children and Adolescents by Katie Wrench is an accessible guide for therapists and social care professionals:
creativelifestorywork.com/latest/skill... @katiewrench.bsky.social
UPDATE ON TICKETING ISSUES AT CITY - 1894 Group, @tradeunionblues.bsky.social and ourselves:
Despite the positive of a season ticket freeze, sky-high matchday pricing + no new season tickets risk damaging generational support.
- Demo vs Villa
- Concourse boycott vs Wolves
CTWD 🤝🩵
Oh Ruth 😔
Couldn’t agree more - it’s devastating for you. X
We all know that. We all know that the potential ‘cost’ to family life of a lack of meaningful support can’t have a price put on it. The way in which this whole fiasco has been managed is so disrespectful and damaging to families and to providers of adoption support. Beggars belief.
If you factor in the effective loss of the specialist assessment ‘pot’ it’s a 60% reduction. I’d love to know how the government anticipate this will come close to meeting need. Here’s a clue … it won’t come close. Costs rising for providers, FAL slashed - make it make sense. @janetdaby.bsky.social
What is therapeutic life story work ❓️
Pleased to contribute to #baat #inscape hot topics looking at developments in art therapy.
🔗Read the article: bit.ly/4hPideM
#ArtTherapy #Therapy
I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too? Still no answer to questions about when a decision will be made re #asgsf Families left without support. Providers in limbo from today.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save… via @38degrees
A podcast here all about A-Z of rights based practice. Lots of discussion, some laughs and some pop music chosen by people in their 50s.
#SocialWorkCatsAndRocketScience
open.spotify.com/show/38QoUzf...
Never one to travel light to training. Looking forward to thinking with foster carers in Bristol today. #lifestorywork
From Proposal to Publication: A Webinar on Mental Health Publishing for Jessica Kingsley Publishers Underrepresented Voices 05th February 2025, 7pm - 8pm (Online)
Hello friends 😊 , JKP books asked me to share this with my network.
They are especially aiming to reach out to people who haven’t been published before and who identify as being from an underrepresented group.
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/83ae23...
#TherapistsConnect
#BlueskyTherapists
18th century cottage in England, whitewashed, roses round the door
The Hosking Houses Trust
supports women writers, artists and creative practitioners, usually over the age of 40 to develop their work through short-term residencies at Church Cottage nr Stratford-upon-Avon.
Details in link.
Please share :)
hoskinghouses.org.uk
And here @mcfcfoodbank.bsky.social
@mcfcfoodbank.bsky.social some to follow on here maybe?
Upcoming course: 'Working with looked after and adopted children' Learn best practice in working safely, ethically and effectively with children looked after, on an SGO or adopted. 📅 24 /25 March, 10-4pm baat.org/event/working-with-looked-after-and-adopted-children-complex-trauma-and-art-therapy/
As a mum, I have been hailed by professionals who know my 1st born as a model parent (he’s an all round achiever). And condemned by some who only know my 2nd (my AuDHDer). They are nurtured the same. My parenting isn’t great or bad- It’s standard. My kids have unique attributes, in body and mind!
My daughter often makes a pronouncement on my outfit in the morning…
Recently I’ve resembled a hazelnut, an autumn leaf and this morning a Victorian lady … I’ll leave it there…
You’ve had a busy week!!
Think yourself lucky tv now starts before 6 - I remember sitting waiting for a programme to start and hoping it would entertain for just a little while to delay the inevitable
NEW POST: A fabulous GIVEAWAY for those who are interested in making decisions in SEND and public law from Victoria Butler Cole KC and @SteveBroach KC. (Tell your SEND Case Officer too!) www.specialneedsjung...
No.. salt and vinegar
I wrote something for ADCS about relational children's services. TLDR: relational institutions need both relational people and relational infrastructure for the people to work in. @jimbaggaley.bsky.social @jamestplunkett.bsky.social might be of interest
www.adcs.org.uk/roses-and-co...
Feel your pain. That’s awful xx
Had similar but with the house - ripped apart. All original character gone and lovely wooden floors covered in posh laminate. Upsetting to see. Glad I got cuttings from the garden
A book review so brilliant it’s worth bleeting (is this the Bluesky equivalent of tweeting?) twice.
Open access - Free Loaves on Fridays review in the Scottish Journal of Residential Care:
www.celcis.org/application/...
