Professional development

This course covers understanding autism, recognising its signs, and addressing the unique needs of autistic children. It includes strategies for effective communication, creating supportive environments, and promoting positive behaviour to ensure the well-being and development of children with autism. Your questions are welcomed.

This course empowers foster carers with coaching techniques and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) strategies to support and nurture children. Participants will learn methods to enhance communication, build resilience, and foster positive relationships, ultimately creating a supportive and healing environment for children.

This course explores the causes of disproportionate outcomes for African Heritage young people, introduces anti-oppressive concepts, and provides a safe space for carers to reflect, share experiences, and learn together.

This workshop will provide essential knowledge and strategies to support children in your care, addressing substance use and misuse challenges. Enhance your skills, connect with fellow foster carers, and gain insights to create a safe and nurturing environment for your children.

This course equips carers with essential knowledge to prevent and respond to fires. It covers fire prevention strategies, emergency procedures, and use of safety equipment. This training enhances carers’ ability to create a safe environment, protect, and care for foster children effectively.

This session provides a relaxed, informal setting for foster parents to connect, share experiences, and offer mutual support. Over coffee, participants discuss challenges, celebrate successes, and build a sense of community, fostering a supportive network for those involved in foster care.

This session provides specialised resources and training for carers. It focuses on understanding and addressing unique challenges, ensuring children receive tailored care. This support enhances carers' skills, promotes children's development, and fosters a nurturing, inclusive environment for their growth and well-being.

This group, exclusively for male carers, provides an opportunity to connect with other foster carers. It helps build fostering knowledge through peer interactions, sharing experiences, and offering mutual support, encouraging a sense of community and enhancing the overall fostering experience.

This course equips foster carers with the skills to handle accusations appropriately, covering procedures, legal aspects, and support systems. It ensures carers can respond effectively, protect all parties involved, maintain trust, safeguard children, and uphold the integrity of the fostering system.

This networking event, attended by a variety of professionals, provides information on housing, mental health, education, and benefits for young people. It aims to help carers understand these options and assess the needs of their young person effectively. Your questions will be welcomed.

A reflective, psychologist-led space created for foster carers. These confidential sessions offer support, insight, and connection—drawing on clinical supervision to explore challenges, celebrate strengths, and build resilience. Whether you're seeking reflection or peer connection, your voice matters. Connect, reflect, and grow together.

Eligibility: This course is open to foster carers:
This specialist RSE training helps foster carers feel confident discussing relationships and sex education with young people of any age. Trauma-informed and foster care-specific, it offers 8 hours CPD in small, interactive sessions. Carers gain practical tools and resources, and learn how brief RSE conversations can positively impact young people’s outcomes.

This session helps participants learn and develop resilience strategies and tools for themselves and the children and young people they work with. It includes defining resilience, methods to build it, resilience strategies, and helpful tools, along with signposting to further support. There will be space for questions and answers.

We understand that fostering can be incredibly rewarding, but also challenging at times. That’s why we’re creating a space for you to meet, share, and support one another. These informal sessions are designed to help you connect with others who understand the unique highs and lows of fostering.

This support group provides a relaxed, informal setting for SGO carers to connect, share experiences, and offer mutual support. Over coffee, participants discuss challenges, celebrate successes, and build a sense of community, fostering a supportive network for special guardians.

The STAR Programme, conducted over two sessions, helps South Gloucestershire's Children's Services embed our Practice model. It integrates Signs of Safety, Trauma-Informed practice, and Systemic approaches to improve service delivery and child welfare, with opportunities for questions and discussions throughout the training.

Supporting adult relationships is crucial, as unresolved conflicts between adults or carers can negatively impact children, causing emotional distress and behavioural issues. This course emphasises the importance of fostering healthy communication among adults to ensure a stable and supportive environment for children.

In this interactive workshop, we will explore mental health, its impacting factors, and how to support children and young people. The session aims to provide practical strategies and insights for fostering well-being. There will be opportunity for discussions and questions.