Story Explorers for local authorities and agencies
Story Explorers is designed with and for children, families and practitioners in fostering, adoption and kinship.
Benefits of Story Explorers
Improve children’s outcomes
- Story Explorers is a programme designed to set children on the path for lifelong learning
- Shared reading has widely evidenced impact on both short-term and long-term outcomes for children
- It contributes to better mental wellbeing, improved educational outcomes, better bonds with significant adults and strengthens identity
- Shared reading routines and rituals strengthen familiarity and security, nurturing placement stability
Support for parents/carers and practitioners
- Our support for carers and parents is suitable for carers at all stage of their parenting journey
- Our resources complement professional standards and contribute to training hours for foster carers
- The practitioner support is suitable for complementing professional development and supporting carers/parents to engage with shared reading
The [Story Explorers] books helped a lot, for both of us. It helps her because, it’s helping her to improve her communication skills and understanding, and it’s help us, like our connection because it’s a time we can share together and have fun… It’s like a bridge. We used to struggle to communicate with Rocio, so this has been very, very important.
Adoptive parent
Based on research
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Explore our 2024–25 evaluation report and find out how Story Explorers helps strengthen reading habits and relationships.