Training for foster carers - including assessment training

Accurate and timely record-keeping is a vital part of fostering. This online training, accessed via a link from the Skills team, teaches you how to document important information about the child’s wellbeing, behaviours, and progress in a clear and professional manner.

This online course, available through Olive, helps carers understand their role in preventing radicalisation and extremism. It ensures you can recognise signs of concern and know how to respond appropriately.

This online training introduces the principles of safeguarding and multi-agency working. It ensures you understand how to protect children from harm and collaborate effectively with professionals.

Delivered via the Training Hub, this course explores how to support children from diverse backgrounds. It helps you understand cultural identity, challenge discrimination, and promote inclusion in your home.

Available online or in person through Olive, this training encourages empathy by helping carers see the world through a child’s eyes. It focuses on building respectful, trusting relationships with children and young people.

This online course, which must be refreshed every three years, explores the reasons behind children’s behaviours. It equips carers with strategies to respond with patience, understanding, and consistency.

This in-person training ensures you are prepared to respond to medical emergencies. It covers CPR, wound care, choking, and other essential first aid skills tailored to children and young people.

Delivered online via the Training Hub, this course teaches safe medication administration. It covers dosage, storage, and how to record and report medication use accurately.

This online training helps you create a safe environment for children in your care. It covers risk assessment, safety planning, and how to balance protection with promoting independence.

This course is required where relevant and focuses on the specific vulnerabilities and safeguarding needs of disabled children. It ensures carers can provide inclusive, protective care.

This online course helps carers understand the Personal Education Plan (PEP) process and how to support a child’s educational progress in partnership with schools and virtual school teams.

Available on SharePoint, this video introduces therapeutic parenting techniques that help children feel safe, connected, and understood. It’s especially useful for children who have experienced trauma.

This online training explores how to build positive, respectful relationships with a child’s birth family. It supports better outcomes for children and helps carers navigate complex family dynamics.

Offered online or in person, this course provides tools for managing stress, setting boundaries, and maintaining emotional wellbeing. It recognises the emotional labour of fostering and supports carers in staying resilient.

This online course helps carers understand the digital world children live in. It covers online risks, privacy, and how to have open conversations about safe internet use.

This online training introduces the PACE model (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy), a therapeutic approach to parenting that helps children feel safe and understood.

Available online or in person, this course prepares carers for the possibility of allegations. It explains the process, your rights, and how to protect yourself and the children in your care.

Delivered in person, this training helps carers talk confidently and appropriately about sexual health, relationships, and consent with young people.

This in-person course teaches techniques to defuse challenging situations calmly and safely. It’s especially useful for carers supporting children with behavioural difficulties.

This in-person training addresses the emotional toll of caring for children who have experienced trauma. It offers strategies for self-care and maintaining emotional balance.

Available online or in person, this course builds on earlier training to explore how to create a truly inclusive fostering environment that celebrates difference and promotes equity.

This immersive, in-person training uses virtual reality to help carers understand the impact of trauma from a child’s perspective. It’s a powerful tool for building empathy and insight.

This in-depth, in-person workshop helps carers recognise, understand, and respond to harmful sexual behaviours. It provides practical guidance and support.

This online session raises awareness of child exploitation, including grooming and trafficking. It helps carers spot warning signs and take appropriate action.