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Making Placements Work & Managing Placement Breakdown – Advanced (zoom)

£370.00 3 hours

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Making Placements Work & Managing Placement Breakdown

Equipping foster and respite carers with the practical tools, evidence-based frameworks, and confidence to build secure, enduring placements.

 

When a child’s history leads to challenging or self-sabotaging behaviours, maintaining placement stability requires moving beyond simple answers. Placements thrive when carers are equipped with therapeutic parenting tools, deep neurological insight, and a strong support network.

 

This professional development course bridges the gap between a child’s need for security and a carer’s capacity to provide it. It translates attachment theory and trauma-informed care into daily habits that prevent placement breakdown and help looked-after children flourish.

Key Learning Highlights

  • Understanding the Child’s Inner World: Explore how early trauma, loss, and attachment disruptions shape brain development, coping mechanisms, and survival responses (e.g., lying, aggression, or withdrawal).
  • The 5 Critical Areas of Functioning: Support day-to-day wellbeing by evaluating Physical Health & Safety, Emotional Wellbeing, Education & Learning, Social Relationships & Belonging, and Identity & Self-Worth.
  • Decoding & Preventing Placement Breakdown: Recognise the gradual stages of breakdown, understand why children unconsciously sabotage placements out of a fear of rejection, and identify early warning triggers in both yourself and the child.
  • Master the Secure Base Model: Apply Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek’s evidence-based framework across its 5 core caregiving dimensions:
    1. Promoting Trust in Availability (reliability and warmth under pressure)
    2. Promoting Reflective Function (building emotional literacy and mentalisation)
    3. Promoting Self-Esteem (praising effort and building character)
    4. Promoting Autonomy (scaffolding age-appropriate independence)
    5. Promoting Family Membership (fostering genuine belonging and identity)
  • Strengths-Based & Resilience Practice: Shift the focus from difficulties to capabilities, utilising the single most powerful factor in building resilience: a stable, committed, and caring adult.
  • Improving Long-Term Life Chances: Champion educational attainment, advocate for mental health services (CAMHS), and build essential life skills to prepare young people for healthy adult relationships and independence.
  • Carer Wellbeing & Self-Regulation: Develop a personal “toolkit” for de-escalation, emotional self-awareness, and reflective habits to prevent burnout and compassion fatigue.

Why Choose This Course?

Placement stability does not require perfection - it is about being consistent, attuned, and supported. This course equips you with actionable strategies to de-escalate crisis moments, understand the meaning behind challenging behaviour, and offer the transformative experience of a truly secure base.

 

Who Should Attend: Foster Carers, Respite Carers, Short-Break Carers, Supervising Social Workers, and Placement Support Practitioners.

Format: This is a live training session through Zoom. It includes taught sections, small group work, work in pairs, and whole group discussions.

 

Hand-outs & Certificates: Downloadable course notes and certificates of attendance are provided.

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Need more time?

We recognise that sometimes groups need more time for discussions and group work. This can mean that a two-hour session is just not long enough to explore the curriculum and engage in question and answer sessions. So we are you offering the opportunity to extend the session by an hour to allow your trainees the chance to explore the curriculum fully!

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