Training and events

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

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

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

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).

Learn how to approach online safety with children in kinship care. This includes helping them navigate the internet, learning about typical use and basic terms/concepts as well as how to address safeguarding concerns – even when less computer comfortable.

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

Learn about the school system and how to advocate for the child in your care within the education system.

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