Open Courses
Courses are in date order below or listed alphabetically in the menu on the right.
Home Injury Prevention
17 September 2008, Baltic House, Cardiff Bay
This one-day course has been designed by ROSPA specifically for foster carers, in order to help them identify potential accident and injury risks in the home and take preventative measures to reduce them.
Skills to Foster Preparation course for Support Carers
19-21 September 2008
This course aims to introduce prospective Support Carers to the key issues related to providing Support Care for children and young people. Over the period of a weekend, the course will help carers to
- clarify the Support Care role and process of approval
- consider the kind of children and young people who will need Support Care and how to meet their needs
- look at ways of working with families using the Support Care service
- identify the roles and responsibilities of the various professionals involved in Support Care
- explore ways to make the home a protective environment for the child receiving Support Care and the carer’s own family
- think about the various contexts for behaviour
- look at ways to manage issues of placement endings
Risk Assessment
8 October 2008, MRC, Llandrindod Wells
This course will provide participants with a model for risk assessment and an opportunity to practice using it in conjunction with risk management skills.
Family and Friends Carers
4 November 2008, Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
This course addresses the range of very different, and sometimes complex, issues involved in the placement and support of children and young people with family and friends (or "kinship care").
Skills to Foster Leaders Course
18-20 November 2008, Baltic House, Cardiff
This course will help those responsible for running in-house preparation sessions for new applicants, regardless of their level of experience. Even those who have run sessions in the past will benefit by learning new training techniques.
Contact
3 December 2008, YMCA, Newport
As part of
the Pathways
Through Fostering series, Foster Carers and Contact will
explore the sometimes complex issues involved in maintaining
contact between fostered children and their birth families. The
style will be informal and interactive.
Allegations
28 January 2009, YMCA, Newport
This course will provide participants with a greater understanding of allegations in foster care and assist them to consider how everyone involved in fostering can play a part in minimising the incidence of allegations of abuse.
Attachment
17 February 2009, Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
As part of
the Pathways
Through Fostering series, the aim of this course is to support
foster carers in developing a good understanding of how children
with insecure attachments can have different expectations of caring
relationships to securely attached children, and the impact this
has on their behaviours in placement.
Fostering Finance
5 March 2009, Baltic House, Cardiff
This training day will explore foster carers' financial rights and responsibilities. It should be attended by staff from local authority and independent fostering providers as well as foster carers themselves.
- Allegations
- Attachment
- Attracting and Keeping Carers in Wales
- Contact
- Family and Friends Carers
- Fostering and IT
- Fostering Finance
- Home Injury Prevention
- Men and Foster Care
- Parent and Child Placements
- Risk Assessment for Foster Carers
- The Skills to Foster Leaders' Course
- Support Care
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