Topics Covered

• Definition of foster care
• Reunifying children to biological families
• Kinship care
• Effects of institutionalisation on children
• Recruiting / screening potential foster carers
• What foster carers do
• Training foster carers
• Assessing foster carers
• Supporting foster carers
• Child protection issues
• Safer Caring
• Men in Foster Care
• Child development including Attachment / Separation & Loss
• Secondary trauma
• Understanding children's behaviours and developing strategies
• Understanding adolescence
• A child's origins are important
• Helping a child move on
• Managing placement breakdown
• Working with children and biological families
• Contact between child and biological family
• Requirements on an agency wanting to develop foster care
• Making the project sustainable
• Every Child Matters
• Outcomes of Looked After Children