CHILDREN’S WORKFORCE TRAINING

This is a comprehensive short course programme aimed at the wider children’s workforce. The courses will be of great value to anyone involved in caring for children in a residential setting, including residential care workers and foster carers. The courses will be of equal value in community settings such as children’s centres and a wide range of projects working with children and young people.

The courses are highly effective when delivered in the workplace to staff teams, but we do also run them at external venues, which will be posted on this page of the website.     

Courses currently available are listed below. There will shortly be full course descriptions available. In the meantime, please contact us for further details.

Induction Standards for Children's Social Care (CWDC) (5 days)

Other Short Courses

• Promoting Contact and Strategies for Working with Birth Families (1 day)
• Safe Care for Carers and Their Families (1 or 2 days)
• Recording Practice for Carers (1 day)
• Men in Caring Roles (1 day)
• Child Development and Behaviour (1 day)
• Working With Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused (1 Day)
• Conflict Management and Resolution (1 or 2 Days)
• Recognising Depression in Children and Young People (1 day)
• Introduction to Attachment Theory (1 day)
• Looked After Children and Education (1 day)
• Supporting Carers and Protecting Children (1 day)
• Families Who Foster – Sons and Daughters of Foster Carers (1 day)
• Managing Challenging and Complex Behaviours (1 day)
• Caring Can Be Stressful – A Reflection On Managing Feelings (1 day)
• Caring for Young Parents and Their Children (1 day)
• Permanency and Longer Term Care (2 days)
• Being Part of The Team – Multi-Agency Working In Residential and Foster Care (1 day)
• Task Centred Foster Care (1 day)
• Direct work With Children (2 days)
• Empowering Foster Carers To Speak Up (1 day)
• Mind Your Language! – A Course About Swearing (1 day)
• Developing Assessment Skills (2 days)  

The main trainer for these courses is Chrissie Anderson, whose profile can be found on the Trainers page of the site. Chrissie is joined by co-trainers on some of the courses.