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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 (this will open in a new window)and SHANARRI(this will open in a new window) 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.
Upcoming training sessions
There are currently no open sessions for this type of training arranged for the aumtumn term 2019.
More dates will be released on Monday 25 November 2019. Sign up for our regular Working with Bookbug(this will open in a new window) newsletter to be notified when training dates are released, or view the rest of our Bookbug training courses(this will open in a new window).
If you would like further information or you would like to arrange an in-house training date for a health visiting team, please contact us on bookbug@scottishbooktrust.com(this will open in a new window) or 0131 524 0179.
"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