Foster Carers' TSD Standards covered:
- 1.1 Principles and values
- 1.2 Equality, inclusion and anti-discriminatory practice
- 1.3 Person centred approaches
- 1.4 Confidentiality and information sharing
- 2.1 Fostering role
- 2.3 Relationship with parents and others
- 4.1 Encourage communication
- 4.2 Knowing about communication
- 4.3 Communication with parents, families and friends
- 4.4 Communication with organisations
- 4.5 Principles of keeping good records
- 5.1 Attachment and stages of development
- 5.3 Transitions
- 5.6 Understanding contexts
- 5.8 Supporting disabled children and children with special emotional needs
- 6.2 Keeping children safe
- 7.1 Your role and approval as a foster carer
- 7.2 Being aware of the impact of fostering on your sons and daughters and extended family
Author Details
Name: Jane Campsill
Job Title: Therapeutic Life Story Worker Practitioner
Specialist Therapy: Therapeutic Life Story Work
Current place of work: Cambian Sexual Trauma Service
For children who have been removed from the care of their family and suffered many placement breakdowns, their life history can be extremely fragmented, leaving the child feeling lost and with no sense of belonging. This can impact hugely on their well-being and make the child very vulnerable in their present and future. Therapeutic Life Story Work offers children opportunity to explore, question and understand past events of their life. Within this it gives them a voice and safe space to feel and express their emotions when making sense of past experiences and the relation it has to their current thoughts, feelings and behaviours.