Practitioner area

Hello! Welcome to the Story Explorers area for practitioners. Here, you’ll find tools to help foster, adoptive, and kinship carers build positive reading habits with the children in their care.

Our resources are thoughtfully developed with practitioners in mind, ensuring that the tools we offer are research-based and easy to implement in everyday practice. We know that the children you work with face unique emotional and developmental challenges, and reading can be a powerful way to address these needs. The right books can help children feel seen, heard, and understood, while also providing carers with a meaningful way to connect.

Through the simple act of sharing stories, carers can build trust, open lines of communication, and create lasting bonds with the children in their care. As a practitioner, your role is vital in guiding carers to make reading a fun, accessible, and impactful part of their routine. Our resources are here to support you every step of the way, offering insights, booklists, infographics, and more to help you empower carers to create meaningful reading experiences that make a difference.

Explore how reading can strengthen relationships and help children the children you work with thrive.

Story explorers bundle

About Story Explorers
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Booklists
Children who read are more likely to overcome disadvantage caused by inequalities, are more likely to be happier, healthier and experience better mental wellbeing and self-esteem, are more likely to do better at school and make more progress across the curriculum and are more likely to develop empathy and creativity

Infographics

More information about the Story Explorers programme and how you can maximise its output

Booklists to support your work with parents, carers and children.

Infographics explaining the benefits of reading for download and print.

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How reading helps

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Hear the difference reading has made to people with experience of the care system