Training Opportunities & Rewards
Develop your skills and be rewarded for doing so. If you are interested in developing existing skills (or gaining new ones), we offer our carers a comprehensive programme of training support, helping you become the best foster carer you can be.
What Training Do You Receive As A Foster Carer?
Journey 2 Foster
All new foster carers will take part in our Journey 2 Foster training, which helps us identify your current skills, weaknesses and experience.
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You'll learn more about foster care and how your skills can help young people flourish.
Our e-learning course is designed to help you learn all the skills you need for your foster care career.
Training & Development
Whether you’re interested in developing your existing skills or simply want to learn something new, you’re in the right place.
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You can benefit from a range of specialist therapeutic courses throughout your fostering career, designed and delivered by a leading expert in the field.
These include (but are not limited to):
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Adolescent Development - Level 2
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Advanced Safer Caring & Risk Management
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Advocacy & Children's Rights
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A Whole Family Approach to Safeguarding
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Counselling Skills
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Effects of Trauma and Caring for Traumatised Children
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Equality & Diversity
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First Aid (Emergency & Paediatric)
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Mental Health
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Promoting Resilience
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Therapeutic Parenting
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Understanding Attachment
Personal Development
What are your long-term goals? With a personal development plan, we can help you reach them.
Together with your social worker, you will develop a personal development plan to help you to develop your skills, as well as identify personal goals and ambitions for you as a carer.
"The rewards are like nothing else so we would encourage people to make that call and find out more."
Kal and Ash, foster carers
