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Stella Smith – Children Looked After: Children’s positive identity in professional practice

Name: Stella Smith – Children Looked After: Children’s positive identity in professional practice
Start: 2024-11-20T20:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-20T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Online webinar

Wednesday 20th Nov @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

£5

Professionals working with children looked after do a fantastic job at putting the child at the centre of their practice and source opportunities for children to positively learn and develop. But are professionals fully prepared for the complexities of promoting children looked after’s individual identity? This webinar explores the impact of language, labels and lived experiences associated with children looked after and how these can be perceived through the eyes of the child. As well as offering strategies to positively promote the identity of children looked after in professional practice.

About the speaker

Stella Smith is a senior lecturer and placement leader for the BA Early Childhood and Childhood suite of programmes at Nottingham Trent University. Stella has worked in the early childhood sector for the last 11 years beginning her career as an early childhood teacher in private day nurseries then transitioning into further, then higher education. Stella is an adoptive mom and has developed a passion for promoting positive attachments for Children Looked After in Early Childhood Education and Care. This is reflected in Stella’s current doctoral research which explores how Early Childhood practitioners promote positive attachment for Children Looked After within their settings. Stella, alongside her colleague, Kerry-Ann Rawson, are eagerly awaiting the publication of their new book ‘Advocating for Children Looked After: Promoting Positive Identities in Professional Practice’ in the new year.