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.

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.

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):

Adolescent Development - Level 2
Advanced Safer Caring & Risk Management
Advocacy & Children's Rights
A Whole Family Approach to Safeguarding
Counselling Skills
Effects of Trauma and Caring for Traumatised Children
Equality & Diversity
First Aid (Emergency & Paediatric)
Mental Health
Promoting Resilience
Therapeutic Parenting
Understanding Attachment

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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.