Training and events

Learn about different types of kinship care, what your arrangement means for what decisions you can make and what parental responsibility means.

Learn how to use books to discuss emotions and identity with the child or children you care for.

Learn about different types of kinship care, what your arrangement means for what decisions you can make and what parental responsibility means.

Learn about the school system and how to advocate for the child in your care within the education system.

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

Learn how to approach online safety with children in kinship care. This includes helping them navigate the internet, learning about typical use and basic terms/concepts as well as how to address safeguarding concerns – even when less computer comfortable.

Learn practical strategies for coping with difficult emotions and how to recognise when you need a break.

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.

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

Learn about drug and alcohol misuse and how it can present itself, and impact children being cared for by kinship carers, as well as the wider kinship family.