Training and events

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn practical tools to help with raising a child of a different ethnic or cultural heritage to you.

Learn about the school system and how to advocate for your kinship child.