Training and events

Learn about ways you might encounter challenging behaviour in children you’re caring for, and how to deal with it sensitively but decisively.

Join our Blackpool roadshow to connect with other carers, share experiences and get vital information to help you make the right choices for you.

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.

Learn about the different kinship care arrangements and the process for formalising your arrangement.

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

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).

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 about drug and alcohol misuse, how it can present itself, and the impact it can have on children raised in kinship care and their families.