A Workshop for Carers on Regulations and Attachment
Eligibility: This course is open to Foster Carers, Kinship Carers and Adopters.
This experiential workshop, delivered by Rebecca Carr-Hopkins, will provide carers with a reflective space to explore the challenges of caring for children who have experienced trauma with a focus on how to help regulate themselves and the children they care for.
Building Connection through Play: Using playful approaches to support Children and Young People to feel safe, valued and understood.
Eligibility: This course is open to foster carers.
Children need opportunities to play whatever their age. This workshop explores how play supports emotional wellbeing, development and relationships, particularly following trauma, loss or disrupted attachment. Through practical activities and discussion, carers will explore how playfulness can build connection, support emotional regulation and strengthen therapeutic parenting.
Family Time Information Session
Eligibility: This course is open to foster carers.
An informal family time information session designed for foster carers, offering practical guidance and peer support. It explores the importance of family time, strategies to overcome challenges, and activities to strengthen connections. The session encourages open discussion, sharing experiences, and building confidence in managing family time effectively within fostering contexts.
Fire Safety in Your Home
This course equips carers with essential knowledge to prevent and respond to fires. It covers fire prevention strategies, emergency procedures, and use of safety equipment. This training enhances carers’ ability to create a safe environment, protect, and care for foster children effectively.
Foster Carers Coffee Morning (Patchway) & (Cadbury Heath) & (Yate)
This session provides a relaxed, informal setting for foster parents to connect, share experiences, and offer mutual support. Over coffee, participants discuss challenges, celebrate successes, and build a sense of community, fostering a supportive network for those involved in foster care.
Foster Carers Engagement Event
Eligibility: This course is open to foster carers.
This event allows foster carers to connect with others, professionals to share experiences, and receive updates. It provides an opportunity to talk and contribute to different areas within the Fostering Service, fostering collaboration, and enhancing the support system for foster children.
Foster Carers Support Group for Carers Caring for Children with Additional Needs.
This session provides specialised resources and training for carers. It focuses on understanding and addressing unique challenges, ensuring children receive tailored care. This support enhances carers' skills, promotes children's development, and fosters a nurturing, inclusive environment for their growth and well-being.
Foster Carers Support Group for Male Carers
This group, exclusively for male carers, provides an opportunity to connect with other foster carers. It helps build fostering knowledge through peer interactions, sharing experiences, and offering mutual support, encouraging a sense of community and enhancing the overall fostering experience.
Managing Allegations
This course equips foster carers with the skills to handle accusations appropriately, covering procedures, legal aspects, and support systems. It ensures carers can respond effectively, protect all parties involved, maintain trust, safeguard children, and uphold the integrity of the fostering system.
Meet the LADO
Eligibility: This course is open to foster carers
Informal opportunity to meet the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) and learn more about the allegations process. This friendly session is designed to bust common myths, answer your questions, and help you understand what happens if a concern or allegation is raised. A safe space to ask, listen and learn.
Mental Wellbeing First Aid Essentials
Eligibility: This course is open to foster carers.
This introductory course builds understanding of mental health and equips participants to provide initial support using the A.C.T.© action plan. Learn to recognise early signs, manage stress, reduce stigma, and guide individuals toward professional help. Includes practical strategies, an e-workbook, and an accredited e-certificate upon completion.
Pathway to Independence
This networking event, attended by a variety of professionals, provides information on housing, mental health, education, and benefits for young people. It aims to help carers understand these options and assess the needs of their young person effectively. Your questions will be welcomed.
Resilience and Self Care for Foster Carers
This session helps participants learn and develop resilience strategies and tools for themselves and the children and young people they work with. It includes defining resilience, methods to build it, resilience strategies, and helpful tools, along with signposting to further support. There will be space for questions and answers.
Safe Sharing Support Group
Eligibility: This course is open to foster carers.
Join fellow foster carers for an informal discussion on safe sharing, support, and confidentiality. Using our Why, Who, How model, we'll explore how to seek support while respecting privacy and professional boundaries. This supportive session encourages open conversation, shared learning, and ensures every voice is heard and valued.
Share The Care Support Groups
We understand that fostering can be incredibly rewarding, but also challenging at times. That’s why we’re creating a space for you to meet, share, and support one another. These informal sessions are designed to help you connect with others who understand the unique highs and lows of fostering.
Sleep Training for Foster Carers
Eligibility: This course is open to foster carers
Sleep can be particularly challenging for children who have experienced disruption, uncertainty or trauma. Delivered by Christal Majendie, this course helps foster carers understand sleep difficulties and provides practical approaches for creating calm routines, supporting emotional security and encouraging healthier sleep patterns for children and young people.
Special Guardianship Order Coffee Morning/Evening
This support group provides a relaxed, informal setting for SGO carers to connect, share experiences, and offer mutual support. Over coffee, participants discuss challenges, celebrate successes, and build a sense of community, fostering a supportive network for special guardians.
STAR for Foster Carers
The STAR Programme, conducted over two sessions, helps South Gloucestershire's Children's Services embed our Practice model. It integrates Signs of Safety, Trauma-Informed practice, and Systemic approaches to improve service delivery and child welfare, with opportunities for questions and discussions throughout the training.
Psychologist Led Support Session for Foster Carers
A reflective, psychologist-led space created for foster carers. These confidential sessions offer support, insight, and connection—drawing on clinical supervision to explore challenges, celebrate strengths, and build resilience. Whether you're seeking reflection or peer connection, your voice matters. Connect, reflect, and grow together.
Understanding teenagers: Connection, Development and Therapeutic Parenting in Foster Care
Eligibility: This course is open to foster carers.
Explore teenage brain development, behaviour, relationships and emotional needs. This workshop covers puberty, risk-taking, emotional regulation, trauma and early experiences. Foster carers will gain an understanding of teenage behaviour and practical therapeutic parenting strategies to build trust, strengthen relationships and support independence.
