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Bookbug overview for health staff
This training session offers health staff an understanding of the Bookbug Programme and explores how they can use the universal, free Bookbug resources to support families to share songs, rhymes and stories from pregnancy onwards.
Course aims and objectives
This course will:
- Familiarise health staff with key elements of the Bookbug Programme
- Explore how songs, rhymes and stories support attachment, family relationships and language development
- Support health staff with information and ideas to enhance the Bookbug Baby and Todder Bag gifting experience for families
- Explore how the Bookbug Programme links to the SHANARRI(this will open in a new window) wellbeing indicators and to the Universal Health Visiting Pathway.(this will open in a new window)
- Provide practical ideas for activities which health staff can share with families
Course details
Course Length: 1 hour
Cost: Funded
Delegate Numbers: Flexible. This session can be delivered to Health Visiting or Midwifery teams or to large groups as part of health board CPD days.
Eligibility criteria
Delegates must be health staff directly working with families during pregnancy or in the early years (0-5)
Upcoming training sessions
Due to the ongoing situation with COVID-19, Scottish Book Trust are postponing all training sessions until the end of March 2020 and are not planning to arrange any new training dates at the moment. Please read Scottish Book Trust's statement(this will open in a new window) for more information. Webinars will continue to take place. Please sign up to our 'Working with Bookbug' newsletter(this will open in a new window) to be alerted when new training dates are available.
There are currently no upcoming training sessions for this course.
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If you would like further information or you would like to arrange an in-house training date for your Health Visiting or Midwifery team, please contact us on bookbug@scottishbooktrust.com(this will open in a new window) or 0131 524 0179.