Foster carer and connected carer training
Additional training
In addition to our mandatory post-approval training, we offer a wide variety of additional courses.
You are able to access all the following training online, or by talking to your training officer or supervising social worker:
- ADHD awareness
- Adolescent brain
- Allegations, complaints, concerns and standards of care
- Appropriate adult
- Autism awareness
- Care leavers
- Child protection level 2
- Deliberate self-harm
- Disordered eating
- Domestic abuse and the impact on children and young people
- Education for looked after children
- Enuresis and encopresis
- Growing up in care: The lived experience
- Health for looked after children
- Honour-based abuse, forced marriage and female genital mutilation
- Keeping safe online and cyber exploitation
- LGBTQ+
- Life story work
- Managing violent behaviour in children
- Meltdowns and shutdowns
- Missing from care
- Moving children onto adoption
- PEEP
- Separation and loss
- Sexual health
- Sexual harmful behaviour
- Special educational needs and disability
- Strategies for managing behaviour
- Supporting anxiety and teaching self-regulation
- Supporting birth children
- Supporting emotional wellbeing and resilience in refugee children
- Tax and National Insurance workshop
- The asylum process for separated children
- Turning 18 as a separated young person
- Unaccompanied asylum seeking children
- Understanding and dealing with secondary trauma/managing feelings
- U-turn drugs awareness
- Working with birth families and managing family time
- Youth offending