Training and events

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

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

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

This free online workshop will give you helpful information about working with your local authority children's services.

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.