Training and events

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

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

Learn about drug and alcohol misuse, how it can present itself, and the impact it can have on kinship children and their families.

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

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

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

Learn the best way to handle conversations about your unique situation.

This workshop will give helpful information about life story work – what it is, how to do it, and how it can help kinship children build a positive self-image.

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

Learn about the support available for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).