Our four-day training course
Some of the topics covered in the four-day initial training programme for new Parents for Children foster carers are:
- Reasons children come into the care system
- The role of the foster carer in building a child's self-esteem
- Attachment patterns and their effect on a child's development
- The importance of the past to a child's future
- Children's identity issues
- Children's development issues
- A basic understanding of behavioural problems
- How to manage challenging behaviour
- Safe caring and developing a safe care policy
- Child protection
- The importance of contact with birth families
- A basic understanding of the Children Act, as it applies to foster care
- Working as a team with Parents for Children and the child's local authority