Managing challenging behaviour with children in kinship care workshop: London

Toynbee Hall 28 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LS

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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  1. About the event
  2. About the venue
  3. Accessibility
  4. Who will be there?
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  6. Get in touch

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.

Kinship carers are family or friends who step up, often during an unexpected crisis, to care for a child when their parents aren’t able to.

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 Toynbee Hall, London, E1 6LS. The venue is wheelchair accessible with step-free access. It’s in a central location and easily accessible by public transport. For details on how to get to the venue, visit the Toynbee Hall website.

There are a number of bus stops within 0.5 miles of Toynbee Hall, including Aldgate East (0.1 miles), Lolesworth Close (0.1 miles), St Boltoph Street (0.3 miles), and Altab Ali Park (0.3 miles).

To plan your journey, visit the Transport for London website.

The nearest underground stations are Aldgate East (0.1 miles), Aldgate (0.3 miles), Liverpool Street (0.4 miles) and Whitechapel (0.7 miles).

Shoreditch High Street (0.5 miles) is the nearest overground station and has a lift from the platform to ground level.

Our nearest DLRs are all fully accessible, including Tower Gateway (0.5 miles) and Shadwell (0.9 miles). All DLR stations have lift or ramp access to the platforms and relatively level access to the trains.

To plan your journey, visit the Transport for London website.

For sat-nav directions, please use the postcode E1 6LS.

There is no parking at Toynbee Hall but there are car parks nearby.

Accessibility

The venue is wheelchair accessible with step-free access. If you have any additional accessibility needs, you will be asked about this on 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,

Please note that Al is contracted to Kinship for this workshop, having worked with us and kinship carers to develop it. Kinship is not responsible for any content Al produces outside these workshops.

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.

Headshot of Al Coates

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.

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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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