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Participants are required to have their cameras on for an interactive experience.
Maximum of two people per screen
Sessions are recorded for quality assurance purposes. They are only viewed by SCTS staff and deleted within 14 days.
£370.00 3 hours
This course is designed to equip carers with the necessary skills to create a positive and supportive environment for children and young people in foster care. It aims to enable them to cope with their challenges and improve their life chances. As a carer, providing a secure base for children who have experienced abuse and neglect in the past can be challenging. This course recognises this fact and offers practical solutions to help carers create and maintain a stable placement.
The course covers the various stages of placement breakdown and its impact on all parties involved. Carers will gain insights into managing their emotional state effectively and supporting the child more efficiently. The course also delves into why a child might sabotage their placement and how to use a safe base model to re-engage with the child and stabilise the placement.
To ensure a successful placement, carers need to adopt a model of parenting based on the four caregiving dimensions consistent with attachment theory: promoting trust in availability, promoting reflective function, promoting self-esteem, and promoting autonomy. Additionally, the course includes a fifth dimension, promoting family membership, to provide children in long-term foster care with a sense of identity and belonging. With these tools, carers can offer a supportive environment that enables children to thrive and improve their life chances.
Learning Aims:
This course is for Foster Carers and Adopters as well as their Supervising Social Workers. It is also suitable for Residential Child Care Workers (RCCW) and residential team managers from mainstream, short-breaks and outreach services.
Format: This is a live training session through the platform "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.
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.
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!
