Training and events

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

Learn how to use books to discuss emotions and identity with the child or children you care for.

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

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

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

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

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

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.