Episode 8: S4E8 - The role of a Therapeutic Life Story Worker
Michelle Ewing is a Therapeutic Life Story Worker with Leicestershire Children and Family Services, which recently received an Outstanding rating from Ofsted.
Michelle joins us to share how the local authority provides consistent and high quality life story work for care-experienced children and young people. She gives an insight into the role of a Therapeutic Life Story Worker, her training with Professor Richard Rose, and shares some of her go-to tools and techniques.
Finally, we talk about wellbeing for life story work practitioners: the importance of supervision and accessing support as part of your role.
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Creative Life Story Work Podcast
Find out how a creative approach to Life Story Work can help children and young people who have been in care make sense of their past and build a brighter future.
A new model for Life Story Work is being rolled out in the North East of England, and this podcast shares the latest learning and investigates how it could help improve the lives of care-experienced children and young people across the country.
- No. of episodes: 47
- Latest episode: 2025-06-05
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