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Parent and Child Fostering

Understanding the role of foster carers in parent and child arrangements.

Parent and child fostering is a specialist area that requires foster carers to have dedication and commitment, including a variety of additional skills and knowledge. This course aims to introduce and explore the increasing use of parent and child arrangements in a foster care setting, and enables foster carers to provide nurturing, supportive and safe foster placements for a parent and their child. 

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Course Content

This course will discuss a variety of topics including:

  • Exploring parent and child fostering and its importance
  • Understanding the legal context of parent and child fostering
  • Looking at parallel planning and the Assessment Framework
  • Identifying vulnerability factors for parents
  • Exploring disguised compliance and how to safeguard in parent and child fostering
  • Considering additional tools to help identify risk: placement planning, safer care and recording
  • Practice implications: when foster carers need to intervene to safeguard the child
  • Analysing the Importance of recording
  • Exploring child development, including age ranges, developmental domains and average developmental stages, environmental influences, effects of maltreatment and developmental delay
  • Considering sleep and how it contributes to child development (including safer sleep)
  • Understanding infant and adult attachment
  • Considering challenges with blocked care, cortisol and stress, parental mental health and post-natal depression
  • Looking at the Secure Base Model in parent and child fostering

Learning Objectives

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Gain an understanding of the role of the parent and child foster carer
  • Become familiar with the legal context of parent and child fostering
  • Understand parental vulnerability factors & safeguarding risks in parent and child fostering
  • Understand disguised compliance
  • Consider how to support a parent
  • Become aware of the concept of “good enough parenting”
  • Understand placement planning, risk assessment and safer care plans for parent and child fostering
  • Discuss key themes of child development and how this impacts on parent and child fostering
  • Develop further understanding of how to support a parent or child with additional needs
  • Examine how infant attachments are formed and consider any barriers to developing a healthy attachment

Benefits of the Course

  • CPD Accredited
  • Qualified expert trainers
  • Updates in line with current regulations and policies
  • Flexible delivery options: face-to-face or webinar
  • Industry recognised certification

CPD Verified Training

All our courses are CPD verified and reviewed annually by leading subject matter experts. Each programme is refreshed with the latest research and best practice, ensuring you receive training that’s accurate, relevant, and consistently up to date.

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“I found the session very engaging and practical. It gave me new tools and reinforced the importance of patience, empathy, and clear communication when working with parents and children.”

Foster Carer

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“The trainer was excellent and makes it so easy to understand. She used video and case studies and getting everyone involved which was a huge plus for us.”

Foster Carer

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