Training and events

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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