Family Futures is inviting adoptive parents, foster carers and special guardianship/kinship carers to watch a recording of the live webinar which took place on 1 December 2022 with Sarah Falkenberg-Hassan, Arts Psychotherapist. Please complete the form below to access the recording.
Play is the language in which children primarily communicate with and is an essential component of human development. For children in foster care and who have been adopted, early years will have been marked with chaos and neglect, leaving little space to play freely.
Play encourages reciprocal relationships and allows a child to revisit the basic need for connection, a ‘way in’ to support repair with secure care givers. Play provides opportunities for children to develop their cognitive, motor and emotional and social skills, as well as being a vehicle for achieving a sense of mastery, bringing joy and a sense of ‘shared fun’ with others.
