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Men in Fostering – Evening (Zoom)

£270.00 2 hours

Description

Navigating Challenges, Protecting Yourself, and Caring with Confidence

Fostering is deeply rewarding, but male carers face a distinct set of social perceptions, professional scrutiny, and practical safeguarding demands.

 

This practical, professional development course equips male foster carers, prospective carers, and social care professionals with the knowledge, self-awareness, and practical tools to deliver transformative, safe, and nurturing care. From navigating complex allegations processes to building secure attachments with traumatised children, this training provides clear guidance to help men care with total confidence.

Key Learning Objectives

By completing this course, participants will be able to:

  • Address Barriers & Stigma: Understand the social and professional landscape male carers navigate and develop strategies to handle scrutiny and isolation.
  • Model Healthy Masculinity: Provide consistency, emotional intelligence, and safe boundaries for children who lack positive male role models.
  • Master Safer Caring Practices: Implement practical risk-management protocols for physical touch, lone supervision, and digital boundaries.
  • Build Positive Attachments: Apply trauma-informed techniques to support children with insecure or disorganised attachment styles in forming long-term trust.
  • Navigate Allegations & Policy: Understand LADO procedures, maintain robust contemporaneous records, and collaborate on bespoke Safer Care Policies.
  • Deliver Warmth Safely: Eliminate the myth that safeguarding restricts affection, learning to offer authentic, everyday nurturing within clear professional boundaries.

Why Choose This Course?

  • Directly Addresses the Gender Gap: 1 in 3 children in care come from households with no consistent male presence. This course specifically targets the distinct strengths and challenges male carers bring to closing that gap.
  • Balances Warmth with Practical Protection: Learn how robust safer caring policies create the secure foundation that makes affection safe for everyone.
  • Grounded in Real-World Safeguarding: Provides step-by-step guidance on complex issues like allegation investigations, boundary-testing, and self-protection.

Who Should Attend?

  • Current Male Foster Carers looking to strengthen their practice, manage risk, and build peer support.
  • Prospective Male Carers navigating the assessment and approval process.
  • Fostering Social Workers, Trainers, & Agency Staff seeking to better support, recruit, and retain male carers in their networks.

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 hand-outs and certificates will be provided.

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Advanced Training

This option is aimed at an audience with prior knowledge of the subject and isn’t suitable for.  Those that are new to the subject would be better with our standard course.

Empowering Safety: Bespoke Safeguarding & Child Protection Training

Why Choose Bespoke Training?

Generic training can leave staff feeling unprepared for the real-life scenarios they face. Our tailored approach ensures the content, delivery method, and case studies are directly relevant to your sector (e.g., education, healthcare, sport, charity, corporate), your local policies, and the specific vulnerabilities and risks present in your community.

Our Specialised Training Pillars

We design engaging, practical, and compliant training across three core areas:

  • For Professionals Working with Children (Child Protection): Focuses on recognising the signs of abuse and neglect, statutory guidance (e.g., Working Together to Safeguard Children), robust reporting procedures, and the creation of a safe, child-focused culture.
  • For Professionals Working with Adults (Adult Safeguarding): Focuses on the principles of the Care Act, understanding different types of harm, promoting wellbeing, Mental Capacity Act (MCA) considerations, and ensuring person-led safeguarding responses.
  • Blended Cohorts (Safeguarding for All Ages): Ideal for organisations whose staff or volunteers interact with both children and adults (e.g., community centres, housing associations, religious organisations). This training highlights the common principles of good practice while clearly delineating the different legal frameworks, signs of harm, and reporting routes for each demographic.

Invest in training that transforms knowledge into action. Equip your team with the confidence and competence to protect those in your care proactively.

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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