The Fostering Network has been awarded a grant from The Roald Dahl Foundation to support a project aimed at improving the literacy levels of children in foster care, from which our members in Wales will benefit.
Research demonstrates that educational outcomes for children in foster care are poor in comparison to their peers, however children who engage with books and reading outside school often perform better. The Telling My Story project aims to encourage foster carers to read with their children helping to develop vocabulary and speaking and listening skills. The process also provides a valuable opportunity for foster carers to bond and spend quality time with the children in their care.
Telling My Story will hold a storytelling event in Cardiff on 18 November 2007 providing foster carers, fostered children and sons and daughters of foster carers the chance to talk to a children's author, get involved in storytelling workshops and gain skills in teaching or learning to read.
These events are open to all foster carers - the story telling event and lunch are free. For more information go to our events section.