Training and events

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.