"People keep on coming and going. When you're in the care system that's just what life is," said one young person in a report last year by the Blueprint Project. But skilled and supportive professional practice can always make a difference to how well young people cope with the system's unpredictabilities, and with the traumas they will have experienced earlier in their lives.
This is where life-story work comes in by helping young people find their own kind of order amid the confusion of facts and figures and people and places.
It also enables them to reach the degree of understanding and acceptance they will need in order to negotiate change and move on. Life-story work can also be used in ascertaining a young person's wishes and feelings in relation to other decisions and dilemmas.
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