Training and events

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

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

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

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

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

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