Foster Carer Training

As an independent fostering agency, Regional Foster Placements has a responsibility to provide our carers with the best training that we are able to make available, and the following courses have been carefully planned and chosen to support working with the children that now come to us with increasingly complex and challenging issues.

As a minimum, we expect carers to attend three courses during the year. Additionally, we would request that all male carers attend the ‘Men Who Foster Conference’ and at least one person from each fostering family attend the ‘Attachment and Resilience Conference’.

Other important course subjects covered in 2008 include:

Contact and Contact Issues
Record Keeping
Child Protection
First Aid
Safe Care
Challenging Behaviour
Loss and Separation
Internet safety and skills
Preventing Disruptions and Allegations
Diversity awareness
Makaton Training
Working with children who have been sexually abused
Making the most of education
Substance Misuse and Young People
Managing Conflict
Working with children affected by Domestic Violence
Sexual health including teenage pregnancy
Men who foster
Attachment and resilience

You can download a comprehansive document of all the training courses Regional Foster Placements will be running throughout 2008 below

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