All fostering service providers are expected to ensure that carers are trained to provide high quality care, and meet the needs of each child or young person placed in their care. This will include:

  • Pre-approval training – Skills to Foster, Preparing to Foster, Journey to Foster
  • Induction training – what to expect from your fostering service including access to support and further training.
  • Ongoing core training such as:
    • Attachment and Loss
    • Building Identity
    • Transitions and Endings
    • Parenting a child who has been sexually abused
    • Moving Children on to Adoption
    • Safer Caring
    • Supporting Children’s Education
    • Fostering a child with a disability
    • Autism/ADHD
    • Supporting contact with birth parents
    • Life Story Work
    • Child Protection/ Safeguarding Children
    • Coping with Allegations

You should also be provided with the opportunity to attend:

  • Specialist training courses e.g. Men who Foster, managing challenging behaviour, working with HIV , etc
  • Professional vocational training – NVQ level 3.
  • On Line specialist courses

If there are two adults in the household approved as foster carers, both will be expected to complete the relevant training. Fostering services will usually arrange training around child care commitments or to facilitate the attendance of working partners, so this may often take place in the evening or at weekends.