Life Story Guides and Toolkits
Access practical guides, templates and toolkits to support life journey work with children and young people. These resources provide guidance for professionals and families on gathering information, exploring a child’s history and relationships, creating life story books, and preparing important documents such as later life letters.
Resources to download
Downloadable resources below:
- Download: Birth Family Life story questions
- Download: Checklist for content of later life letters
- Download: Life Story Work Guide for Professionals
- Download: Making History-A Social Workers Guide to Life Books
- Download: Writing to Children – A Toolkit for Judges
My story so far – a tool for collecting life journey information
My Story so Far (10 sections)
- Download: Part 1 My life with my birth family
- Download: Part 2 My life with my foster family
- Download: Part 3 Spending time with my birth family
- Download: Part 4 Memories from nursery and school teachers
- Download: Part 5 Memories from health professionals
- Download: Part 6 Memories from the IRO
- Download: Part 6a Memories from the Court Guardian
- Download: Part 7 The narrative of my journey through life
- Download: Part 8 My life with my growing up familly
- Download: Part 9 Keeping in touch with my birth family-word
- Download: Part 10 Later life letters
Additional support documentation
- Download: Life journey Book example – Johnny
- Download: Annexe 3 Life story questions – Maternal family
- Download: Annexe 1 Life Journey Work-plan
- Download: Annexe 2 My life with my birth family-parents version
- Download: Annexe 3 Life story questions – Paternal family
- Download: Annexe 4 LJW materials signed consent
- Download: Annexe 5 Later life letter Guidance
- Download: Annexe 5-Late Life Letter Guidance
