Training and events

Learn the best way to handle conversations about your unique situation.

Explore the practical aspects of contact with birth parents and family members.

Learn about trauma and attachment and how they might affect the children you care for.

Learn about working with your local authority children's services.

This webinar will offer practical information on the adoption and special guardianship support fund, how to access it and how the upcoming changes may affect your situation.

Explore the emotional aspects of contact with birth parents and family members.

Learn about the support available for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

This free workshop will give you helpful information about financial support you may be able to get as a kinship carer.

Learn about FASD, what it is, how it can present itself and how you can support children in your care who are showing FASD symptoms or are confirmed to have it.

Learn about life story work – what it is, when to consider it, techniques to carry it out (and get support), as well as how it can help kinship children build a positive self-image.