Training and events

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

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

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

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

Join our Peterborough 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.

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

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.

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