If you are a teacher, youth worker, social worker, or work in education, youth, or children’s services, you are warmly invited to a special live recording of The Relational Social work Podcast, featuring Katriona O’Sullivan, bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Poor.
Poor is a Belgrade Theatre and Gate Theatre co-production. Based on Katriona O’Sullivan’s best-selling memoir, it charts her extraordinary journey as she emerges from her childhood in Coventry.
Broadcast live from the set of Poor this event offers a unique opportunity to hear directly from Katriona in conversation with Hannah Bedford, Family Valued Team Manager Coventry Children and Education Services.
Together, they will explore the lived experience and practice implications of poverty, and what it truly means to see and support the whole child.
This live recording will be followed by networking and refreshments in Nineteen 58 from midday to 12.30pm.
Themes of discussion
- How lived experience of poverty shapes identity, opportunity, and practice,
- What it means in practice to truly see and support the whole child,
- The role of arts, culture, and storytelling in changing outcomes for children and young people.