Training and events

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

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.

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

Learn about working with your local authority children's services.

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 trauma and attachment and how they might affect the children you care for.

Learn about the different kinship care arrangements and the process for formalising your arrangement.

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

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

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.