| Life (story) Books: 'Making connections.' | | | | make sense and ultimately feel good about |
| The experiences of foster children almost always | | | | themselves and their history. Steve, a foster carer |
| gives them a sense of missing pieces and a confused | | | | recalled that several years after he was fostered, he |
| sense of who they are. Any child separated, even | | | | read his social services fostering file and found a |
| for relatively brief periods, needs to be able to have | | | | copy of his Life Book which he had forgotten all |
| and keep anchors to their past such as photographs, | | | | about. The best thing for him was that one of his |
| toys and other things that might seem unimportant | | | | foster carers had written that as a young child, he |
| to anyone else. | | | | learned to whistle 'all things bright and beautiful' and |
| Life (story) Books help put all the memories and | | | | everyone would cheer. This was his favourite piece |
| pieces together in a way that helps a foster child | | | | of information which he cherishes today. |