Training

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If you're interested in becoming a foster carer, we help you with 'appetiser-style' insight for training, covering:

• Overview of the fostering role and responsibilities.
• Understanding the different types of foster care placements.
• Debunking common myths about fostering.
• Practical foster care scenarios by real foster carers.

Learn how to manage, assess and understand risk, harm and benefits within fostering.

• Helping you understand what is meant by allegations and the differences between allegations, complaints and standards of care issues.
• Introducing the allegations process and possible outcomes.

A comprehensive program for aspiring Foster Carers.

This training covers essential topics such as understanding the needs of foster children, managing challenging behaviours, safeguarding, and building positive relationships.

Enable carers to understand the complexity of issues involved in planning and managing family time with birth parents and to develop the knowledge and skills to play their part with confidence.

Assisting you to understand trauma-informed thinking and behaviour in terms of how it affects a child's development, also helping you to gain a greater understanding of what childhood trauma and attachment means for children in their everyday lives.

Providing foster carers with a sound level of understanding and ability to promote equality, diversity, and the rights of the children and families they work with.

Offering a different parenting approach that can be especially effective for supporting children who lack secure emotional bases which is an ideal approach for you. 

This programme helps birth children understand fostering, share their feelings, and build resilience. Through age-appropriate activities, it explores the impact of welcoming foster children, coping with changes, managing relationships, and knowing where to go for support. The aim is to empower them, ensure their voices are heard, and strengthen the whole fostering family.