This webinar with Dr Lisa Cherry explores how shared reading can become a relational practice that helps children feel safe, seen and connected.
Through discussions with practitioners and examples from children’s books, we’ll reflect on how shared reading can open conversations about identity, family and lived experience, particularly for children in kinship care, foster care and adoption.
Date: Tuesday 21 April 2026
Time: 11am – 12.15pm
Accessibility: A video recording will be available two days after the event
Suitable for: All Virtual School Teams. Designated teachers in schools. Practitioners supporting children and families in contact with the social care system.
In this webinar, you’ll:
- Explore how shared reading can support connection and belonging for children in kinship care, foster care and adoption.
- Hear insights from Dr Cherry’s work on relational practice, alongside emerging thinking from BookTrust on bonding, attachment and shared reading.
- Discover practical ways to use children’s books to open conversations about identity, family experience and belonging with children and carers.
All participants will receive a Belonging book recommendation list curated by BookTrust in partnership with Dr Cherry.