Children in Need – Born to Love and Be Loved
This session helps practitioners understand the issues for young people before they come into care and how this impacts them.
Training
Training for children’s residential care
CPD-accredited training designed especially for children’s residential care, facilitated by Lived Experience Leaders.
We provide training that gives residential care staff and practitioners an understanding of lived experiences.
Our Lived Experience Leaders provide training that helps residential care staff and practitioners understand the experiences of children in social care and learn the skills to better support them.
Face-to-Face & Virtual Courses
Especially picked for children’s residential care.
Endings: Providing children a healthy understanding of the inevitability of endings.
- Face to Face
- On-demand
- Virtual
This session looks at the impact of endings, focussing on the psychological and practical challenges that arise. Although we talk about the negative impact this can have, the aim of this session is to give you tools to communicate with young people, helping them develop coping mechanisms and foster positive mindsets towards them.
Read MoreTeenage Mental Health: The challenges for care experienced people.
- Face to Face
- On-demand
- Virtual
The session delves into the lived experiences of teenagers in and leaving care, dissecting how their unique challenges intersect with mental health diagnoses such as depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Guided by real-world scenarios and enriched by evidence, this session provides a foundational understanding of mental health concerning care-experienced individuals.
Read MoreLeaving Care: Supporting young people to transition out of care and into meaningful independence.
- Face to Face
- On-demand
- Virtual
This session aims to provide an overview of the wide-ranging challenges and opportunities of leaving care. We begin by understanding the systemic challenges that may make this transition especially difficult, navigating housing options, understanding benefits, gaining employment, and how they can often cancel, contradict or counteract each other.
Read MoreMessages in Behaviour: What Children Are Really Telling Us
- Face to Face
- On-demand
- Virtual
Participants will gain insights into how behaviours are formed and reinforced, and how young people develop their understanding of right and wrong. By examining the underlying factors and influences - such as parenting, peers and teachers, participants will be equipped with a more comprehensive understanding of children's behaviours, allowing for more effective support and intervention.
Read MoreEntering Care: The Real Reasons Children Enter Care
- Face to Face
- On-demand
- Virtual
This session offers participants a real-life journey into the care system, providing valuable insights into the experiences and challenges faced by young people entering care -grounding the learning in lived experiences.
Read MoreThe Impact of Recording and Communication
- Face to Face
- On-demand
- Virtual
This session that explores how unconscious bias influences the recording and communication practices within social work.
Read MoreTrauma & Transitions
- Face to Face
- On-demand
- Virtual
The session explores primary school to secondary school transitions, entering and leaving the care system, and different age transitions for young people.
Read MoreAdverse Childhood Experiences and Parenting Styles
- Face to Face
- On-demand
- Virtual
Throughout this session, participants will explore various adverse childhood experiences and their effects on children and young people.
Read MoreTwo timetables – The demand of school & social care
- Face to Face
- On-demand
- Virtual
This session helps you support children in care in school more effectively.
Read MoreChildren’s Social Care – The people and services
- Face to Face
- On-demand
- Virtual
This session is all about the people and services within children’s social care so you know who young people are being supported by.
Read MoreChildren in Need – Born to love and be loved
- Face to Face
- On-demand
- Virtual
This session helps practitioners understand the issues for young people before they come into care and how this impacts them
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Our training is designed to give you more.
A variety of topics
Our course topics include attachment, trauma, loss, youth engagement, children in care, and care leavers.
Facilitated by Lived Experience Leaders
Our training and keynotes are facilitated by Lived Experience Leaders who have both professional and personal experience of children’s social care.
Reflective learning
Our training brings people together to engage, reflect, and communicate.
Developed for you
Each course follows a clear structure, has carefully considered learning outcomes, and is easy to follow.
Engaging materials
Our courses offer downloadable resources and other tools to keep the audience engaged.
CPD-accredited
All of our courses are CPD-accredited.
Our training is for:
Foster Carers
Police
Managers and Directors of Children's Services
Teachers
Residential Staff
Youth Offending Service
Social Workers
Independent Reviewing Officers
Children's Health Professionals
Councillors and Lead Members
Leaving Care Workers
Youth Participation Workers
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Adverse Childhood Experiences – What They Are and How to Support Young People Experiencing Them
This session explores adverse childhood experiences including divorce, separation, difficulties in families and the impact it has on a child’s development.
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Messages in Behaviour – What Children Are Really Telling Us
This session will help you recognise and respond to messages in children’s behaviour.
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Attachment, Behaviour and Parenting – How Children’s Attachment and Behaviour are Learnt From Their Parenting
This session helps you understand the impact a child’s parenting has on their development, attachment styles and behaviour.
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Entering Care – The Real Reasons Children Enter Care
This session explores the real-life experience of young people entering care.
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Abuse, Neglect and Trauma – Children and Trauma
This session helps you consider how to support children in care in school more effectively.
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Impact of Recording – How Statutory Recording Can Cause Stigma
This session gives you the skills to record information that truly represents children and ensures they access services they need.
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Unconscious Bias: Understanding and Overcoming Unconscious Bias
This session explores the different types of unconscious bias, the impact our behaviour, decision making, and how to mitigate the impact of bias.
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Children’s Social Care and School – The Demands of School and Social Care
This session explores the real-life experience of young people entering care.
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Personality Development – How We Become Who We Are
This session looks at how personalities are developed. With a focus on childhood experiences, we will explore how children develop their social skills, morals and learn how to behave.
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Leaving Care – Why Young People Disappear
This session shows you how young people can transition from care into independent and meaningful lives.
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Becoming Independent – How to Support Young People Post-18
This session explores the practical and emotional issues young people face when becoming independent, and what you can do to support them.
How to book
1. Select a training session or keynote
Let us know if you need a keynote speech or training session.
2. Choose face-to-face or virtual
Tell us if you would like to have a fact-to-face session or if it’s virtual.
3. Complete our booking form
Fill in our booking form and tell us who this training is for, when you would like it we will get in touch with you to discuss your booking.
We also offer e-learning training
