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Donate nowGifting the Bookbug baby and toddler bags: Awareness sessions for health staff
This training session is designed to support health staff in their role of gifting the Bookbug Baby and Toddler Bags to families as part of the Universal Health Visiting Pathway.
Course aims and objectives
This course will:
- Familiarise health staff with the Bookbug Bag and how it can be used to support family bonding, language and literacy development and overall good health
- Encourage health staff to share the importance of talking, singing and book sharing in the home when gifting the bags
- Highlight the role and importance of songs, rhymes and stories to encourage bonding and attachment in the home
- Show how the Bookbug Programme links to GIRFEC and SHANARRI approaches
Course details
Course Length: 1 hour
Cost: Funded
Delegate Numbers: Flexible. This session can be delivered to Health Visiting teams or to large groups as part of health board CPD days.
Eligibility Criteria:
Delegates must be involved with gifting the Bookbug Baby or Toddler Bags to families.
Applying for a Bookbug training course
Check back in September for details of all the Bookbug training sessions taking place across Scotland in autumn 2019, and apply for a place! Anyone who meets our eligibility criteria for the course is welcome to apply for any of these training sessions.
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Please note, in order to make best use of our funding, we are only able to offer a very limited number of in-house training sessions for specific groups of professionals, in certain geographical locations. We would strongly encourage organisations who would like their staff to be trained to apply for places in one of our open training sessions.
Comments
"Transforming the health and wellbeing of Scots is the single most important thing we can do and at the heart of that process is doing things for children, getting children off to the best possible start in life. The Bookbug programme is a critical part of it. Getting children to read and getting parents reading to children and sharing that experience will have a very significant impact on their future health and wellbeing."
Sir Harry Burns, Professor of Global Public Health, Strathclyde University