Licketyspit is committed to joined-up thinking and exploring new ways that the widest possible range of children’s services can collaborate in achieving our shared goals.

That’s why we work with Glasgow City Council, Scottish Adoption, The Scottish Refugee Council, and of course, all of our Storyplay Schools. It’s also why we hold regular CPD sessions, to share our learning and practice with children’s professionals working in a range of services and settings.

As well as this, we regularly participate in conferences and symposia, where we meet children’s professionals from all over Scotland (and sometimes all over the world!) to share our findings and expertise. These knowledge sharing opportunities cross disciplines, Education, Health and Wellbeing, Childcare, Social Care, and of course, the Arts.

This year, I went to Play Perform Learn Grow, a European meeting of arts and play specialists, which this year was held in Thessalonika, Greece.

And just last month I took the train up to Inverness for the Care and Learning Alliance, or CALA, conference…