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Courses are in date order below or listed alphabetically in the menu on the right.

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.

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Contact

3 December 2008, YMCA, Newport

logo for pathways through fosteringAs 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.

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Parent and Child Placements

11-12 December 2008, Springboard Centre, Cwmbran

This training provides practitioners with an opportunity to absorb and discuss agency policy procedure and process, as well as guidance on the assessment of PACT carers and evidence to present at panel.

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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.

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Attachment

17 February 2009, Brangwyn Hall, Swansea

logo for pathways through fosteringAs 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.

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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.

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