Managing challenging behaviour with children in kinship care workshop: Leeds
Join our free workshop about ways you might encounter challenging behaviour in children you’re caring for, and how to deal with it sensitively but decisively. Our workshops are a place where you’ll meet other kinship carers just like you and where you can connect and learn together.
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About the event
This workshop is for kinship carers who want to learn more about how to understand and manage challenging behaviour in the children they’re caring for.
The workshop will also cover how to support children in kinship care when displaying complex and/or challenging behaviour – as well as detailing how adversity impacts general behaviour, child development and world interaction.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to:
- understand why children’s behaviour may be challenging and/or aggressive
- develop responses to challenging behaviour, keeping in mind how this can impact future behaviour and regulation
- develop effective strategies to reduce and manage aggressive/challenging behaviour
- to create, find and explore further information and support
You are invited to stay after the workshop to have a free lunch and connect with the other kinship carers. Please make a note of any dietary requirements in the booking form below.
After the workshop you will receive information and the presentation slides by email, along with a feedback survey.
About the venue
Our Kinship workshop takes places at Statement Suite, Aspire Leeds, 2 Infirmary Street, Leeds, LS1 2JP. The venue is in a central location and easily accessible by public transport. For details on how to get to the venue, visit the Aspire Leeds website.
Any of the following buses stop on Infirmary Street which is right outside the Aspire main entrance : 35, 45, 71,1, 95, 96, x98, 99, 444, 74, 85, 770.
To plan your journey, visit First Bus.
The nearest train station is Leeds City Station. Exit Leeds train Station through the left hand exit, cross the road from Wellington Street into City Square straight ahead, Walk past the Restaurant Bar and Grill and the Banyan on your left, turn left onto Infirmary Street, Aspire is approximately 100 yards on your left look for the Aspire banner flags hanging down the building with steps leading up to the glass entrance to the venue, alternatively the office reception is located in the courtyard opposite the Toronto Square building.
To plan your journey and buy train tickets, visit National Rail or Trainline.
For more details about Leeds City Station, visit Leeds City Station on National Rail.
There are a limited number of parking spaces available for visitors at Aspire. Car parking at Aspire can be pre-booked by calling their office reception on: 01132 368 368, at a rate of just £3 per hour, obtain a permit from reception to display in your car. Vans are charged at £6 per hour.
From the South
M621, M1 and M62 motorways follow the signs to Leeds city centre and the train station, go along Neville Street towards City Square, pass under the railway bridge, keep in the right hand lane go through the traffic lights pass City Square on your right, enter onto Quebec Street, turn right through the black iron gates leading into Croft Court.
From the North
Take any main A road into Leeds and then follow signs for the train station which leads you round the city centre loop road. Go along Neville Street towards City Square, pass under the railway bridge, keep in the right hand lane go through the traffic lights pass City Square on your right, enter onto Quebec Street, turn right through the black iron gates leading into Croft Court.
Accessibility
The venue is wheelchair accessible with step-free access. If you have any additional accessibility needs, you will be asked about this in our booking form. Please let us know so we can make this event as comfortable as possible for you.
Who will be there?
Our events are a warm, supportive space to learn about this topic, as well as meet and connect with other kinship carers.
This event is open to up to 25 kinship carers. Unfortunately, we ask that children do not attend this event. Local authorities will not be in attendance.
Who runs this workshop?
This workshop is run and facilitated by Al Coates MBE,
About Al Coates MBE:
Al is an independent social worker, specialising in supporting kinship carers to manage challenging and aggressive behaviour – which he’s co-authored several publications about.
Al and his wife have extensive personal experience, having adopted three children themselves in 1999, then becoming foster carers to two more in 2008. They went on to adopt those children and their sibling in 2013. In the same year, Al qualified as a social worker and has worked in fostering since. He facilitates several support groups, working directly with families to help them manage complex and challenging behaviour in children.
Al has used his own experience to campaign and raise issues around adoption, working since 2015 with the Department of Education within their Expert Advisory / Adopter Reference groups and Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board. He was awarded an MBE in 2018 for services to adoption.
Al qualified as an NVR advanced practitioner in 2021, and since doing so has actively blogged about it. In 2016 he founded the Adoption & Fostering Podcast, which he co-hosts.
Book your space
When you book your free place, we’ll ask you about your experience as a carer, your gender, age, ethnicity and other demographic information. This helps us make sure that the services and experiences we offer are as inclusive as possible and that our advice is relevant to your locality.
We will also ask about your accessibility needs. This is to ensure that you have a comfortable experience on the day.
Get in touch
Our Kinship team can answer any questions you might have about this workshop. Please email us on workshops@kinship.org.uk.
We have other workshops planned across England. To find out where and when they will be, keep an eye on our events page as we update it with more events, or email us at workshops@kinship.org.uk.
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