First Aid for Carers
This mandatory course covers essential first aid skills, ensuring carers are well-prepared to handle emergencies and provide safe, effective care for the children in their charge. This training will build confidence and skills to make caregiving environment safer and more secure.
Bitesize Workshop: Safeguarding Children Who Do Not Live at Home (Private Fostering)
This session educates practitioners on private fostering and their obligations. Recommended for all who work with young people across agencies, to ensure they understand their responsibilities and who to contact for support and guidance regarding safeguarding children.
Core Skill 2 - Child Protection Basic Awareness
This course covers laws, guidance, and procedures to protect and safeguard children both nationally and locally. It provides essential information to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children in their care, equipping Fosters Carers with the knowledge needed to fulfil their responsibilities effectively.
Core Skill 3 - Safer Caring
This course focuses on creating safe, secure environments for children, covering risk assessment, safeguarding practices, and strategies to prevent harm. Carers will be equipped to protect children, promote their wellbeing, and handle safety concerns effectively. There will be space for questions.
Core Skill 4 - Equality and Diversity for Foster Carers
This course highlights the inequalities faced by Care Experienced people. It encourages discussions on actions to reduce and eliminate disparities. The training promotes understanding, inclusivity, and proactive measures to create a fairer, more supportive environment for everyone involved.
Core Skill 5 - Recording - Write Enough!
This foster care training course aims to improve the recording practices of Foster Carers. It is linked to the Induction Standards for Foster Carers, enhancing documentation skills and ensuring accurate, comprehensive records to support the care and development of foster children.
Core Skill 6 - Holistic Health and Wellbeing for Children in Care
This course focuses on the health of children and young people from birth to becoming a care leaver. We consider not only physical health but also emotional and social well-being. It includes discussions on puberty and sexual health, encouraging open and sometimes-embarrassing conversations.
Core Skill 6 - Loss, Change and Bereavement for Children Adopted or in Care
When children enter care or are adopted, they often experience loss and bereavement from being separated from their birth family. This course helps you understand and manage their emotions, offering strategies for effective communication with your child or young person.
Core Skill 6 - Why And How? Attachment and Emotional Health For Young People Looked After
This course, for foster carers and adopters, enhances your knowledge and understanding of attachment, focusing on the emotional health of children in your care. This introduction to therapeutic parenting, provides insights and strategies to support the well-being of looked-after young people.
Core Skill 7 - Non Violent Resistance
Claire Greenham from WAYPOINT will lead this course, equipping carers with strategies to manage challenging behaviours without aggression. The training focuses on de-escalation techniques, building positive relationships, and fostering a calm, supportive environment to promote cooperation and reduce conflict.
Domestic Abuse Training for Foster Carers
This course covers the definition and forms of domestic abuse, including coercive control. It examines its prevalence, especially among young people, and identifies controlling behaviours. The course explores the impacts on children, trauma triggers, recovery strategies, and support for foster carers and children.
Therapeutic Parenting Pick 'n' Mix
Therapeutic Parenting Training is a psychoeducational group for adults caring for children who have experienced trauma and loss. Carers will learn strategies to support emotional healing, manage challenging behaviours, and create a nurturing environment, fostering resilience and stability for children in their care.
