Our Training

Develop skills and confidence to use the ACES study as a tool to inform your fostering and kinship carer assessments.

Learn the art of professional and respectful confrontation and challenging, with a range of resources and tools provided.

Improve your skills in how to complete Carer Reviews/Renewals, with a range of tools and resources.

Develop the skills and knowledge to assess markers for grooming behaviours in applicants, carers or those in a carer’s network with access to vulnerable children and young people in care.

Understand trauma and the impact natural disasters can have on vulnerable children, foster carers and the families they support. Four modules
1. Understanding Trauma and Stress
2. The Care Team
3. Caring in Action
4. How it Affects Me?

Co-written and facilitated by SCS’ Cultural Liaison Officer, assessors are encouraged to challenge biases and use a range of tools to explore a carer/applicants’ capacity to be culturally fulfilling.

Filled with resources, tools and stories, this session helps practitioners to better engage with young people, using their methods, their language, their way.

Help to understand the role of family contact and how to navigate what can be a complex, emotive but essential part of children’s lives.

Easy to use tools and resources to deepen your knowledge of the power and importance of identity for children in care.