Foster carer and connected carer training

Additional training

In addition to our mandatory post-approval training, we offer a wide variety of additional courses. Our training officer is also able to source additional training where required for specific needs.

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

Contact us

Contact the team to tell us you're interested. It's just a chat to start with.

Call: 07917 503447

fosteringrecruitment@swindon.gov.uk

Register your interest

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