Catalog

Safeguarding & child protection: Standard 1 & 6 TSDS

Understanding the course: • Recognise signs and indicators that a child or young person may be being abused • Be familiar with the Safeguarding and Child Protection Process • Understand your own role in working together to safeguard children • Understand how to work with other agencies

Positive Behaviour: Standard 5 & 1 TSDS

Introduction to Positive Behaviour Support

Attachment &embracing therapeutic parenting (formally known as attachment & loss) :Standard 2 & 5 TSDS

We have revised and updated our Attachment and Therapeutic Parenting course to reflect current best practice and principles of therapeutic parenting. Learners will meet 4 children and we will explore attachment theory by following their early parenting experiences. This will replace our existing attachment and loss course.

Record Keeping: Standard 2 ,7, 4 TSDS

Everyone who works with children and young people must know how to keep and share information. In foster care this can involve unique challenges. This course enables learners to understand the principles that underpin good record keeping, and how to apply rules of confidentiality within their own work.

Record Keeping: Standard 2 ,7, 4 TSDS

Everyone who works with children and young people must know how to keep and share information. In foster care this can involve unique challenges. This course enables learners to understand the principles that underpin good record keeping, and how to apply rules of confidentiality within their own work.

Safe use of Medication Standard 3 TSDS

Safe use of medication

Effective communication with children -Standard 4&7 TSDS

Everyone in the children’s workforce needs to be able to communicate effectively with children and young people. The Communicating with Children and Young People course enables learners to understand how the general principles of effective communication can be applied specifically to work with children and young people. It also addresses record keeping and confidentiality in the context of communicating with children.

Effective communication with children -Standard 4&7 TSDS

Everyone in the children’s workforce needs to be able to communicate effectively with children and young people. The Communicating with Children and Young People course enables learners to understand how the general principles of effective communication can be applied specifically to work with children and young people. It also addresses record keeping and confidentiality in the context of communicating with children.

Understanding child development-Standard 1 & 5 TSDS

Understanding child development is an essential task for social workers, foster carers and every member of the children’s workforce. A good understanding of normal child development equips workers to promote healthy development and enables them to recognise signs that a child or young person is not thriving or may need protecting from harm. This course provides that understanding and enables learners to relate this to their role in working with children and young people.

Understanding child development-Standard 1 & 5 TSDS

Understanding child development is an essential task for social workers, foster carers and every member of the children’s workforce. A good understanding of normal child development equips workers to promote healthy development and enables them to recognise signs that a child or young person is not thriving or may need protecting from harm. This course provides that understanding and enables learners to relate this to their role in working with children and young people.

Health & Safety Standard 3&6 TSDS

Foster carers or people who work or volunteer in health and social care settings constitute a large and diverse sector of the workforce and they are invariably caring for those who are in some way vulnerable and are still learning about risk and how to keep themselves safe. In order to ensure that service users and children are safe, it is essential for those working with them to be safe and healthy at work and within their practice and should receive ongoing and up-dated training to be able to ensure this.

Paediatric First Aid- Standard 3 TSDS

Our Blended Full Paediatric First Aid course combines 6hrs of practical training with 6hrs of at home eLearning. Our web-based, interactive and user-friendly eLearning module must be completed prior to the practical day. Learners can access the module as many times as required via a computer/laptop/tablet and phone. The face-to-face training day is 6 hours of practical, trainer-led training to maximise recall and provide learners with the skills, knowledge and confidence.

Paediatric First Aid: Standard 3 TSDS

Our Blended Full Paediatric First Aid course combines 6hrs of practical training with 6hrs of at home eLearning. Our web-based, interactive and user-friendly eLearning module must be completed prior to the practical day. Learners can access the module as many times as required via a computer/laptop/tablet and phone. The face-to-face training day is 6 hours of practical, trainer-led training to maximise recall and provide learners with the skills, knowledge and confidence to act effectively when paediatric

Effective communication with children -Standard 4&7 TSDS

Everyone in the children’s workforce needs to be able to communicate effectively with children and young people. The Communicating with Children and Young People course enables learners to understand how the general principles of effective communication can be applied specifically to work with children and young people. It also addresses record keeping and confidentiality in the context of communicating with children.

National Minimum Standards 9-12

National Minimum standards 9-12

National Minimum Standards 1-4

National Minimum Standards 5-8

Safe use of Medication Standard 3 TSDS

• Understand medication, including the different types and classification • Understand procedures for the supply, storage and disposal of medication • Understand the process of administering medication

Unconscious Bias

To enable foster carers and practitioners looking after BME children in foster care placements develop a stronger working knowledge of children from BME backgrounds. The aim is to enhance relationships between looked after children and those who care for them so placements can meet the cultural needs of children. Participants will work in syndicates/break-out rooms to examine case studies, enhancing their knowledge and confidence in looking after BME children in care placements.

Trauma and the impact on the brain

Fire Awareness with Extinguisher Training

The Fire Awareness with Extinguisher training meets the mandatory requirements of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRO)

PACE

What is it: PACE is a training programme for people who work with and/or care for children and adolescents who have experienced abuse, neglect and disruptions to their primary caregiver relationship. It is rooted in Attachment Theory and is evidenced-based, especially with work with children in foster care or adopted. PACE was developed by Dan Hughes and stands for Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy.

Trauma informed record keeping- Dr Lisa Cherry

When a person comes to read their records, care experienced adults will want to read what has been written to support them to make meaning of the events that happened in childhood. The course has now been split to two session, for completion for this course both sessions need to be attended

Rudeness & Defiance

Strategies to take away and parent therapeutically

Trauma, Disability & PACE

Working with young black men

Course Aim: To enable foster carers and practitioners looking after BME children in foster care placements develop a stronger working knowledge of children from BME backgrounds. The aim is to enhance relationships between looked after children and those who care for them so placements can meet the cultural needs of children. Participants will work in syndicates/break-out rooms to e

Managing Allegations and monitoring standards of care in foster care

Defuse and De-escalation

Transition the move to permanency

Promoting positive contact

Lying & Stealing

Aggression & Destruction

Attachment child in care

Introduction to FASD

This course enables participants to understand what FASD is,the latest terminology, the prevalence, guidance from DHSC, SIGN and NICE, how FASD presents across the lifespan and how to get a FASD diagnosis. The course is interlaced with UK policy documents, academic literature and lived experience

Self Harm in young people

The training session is bespoke and therefore designed to meet your needs. The session takes into account the different learning styles of participants and has aspects that are auditory, visual and kinaesthetic

Understanding symptom overlap – Trauma/ Attachment/Autism/ADHD/Sensory Processing difficulties (with a focus on hyperactivity)

Emotional dysregulation, hyperactivity and sensory processing difficulties are common symptoms that can overlap between Autism, ADHD and Development Trauma, thus making diagnosis and treatment complex and confusing.

Anti-Racism

To enable foster carers and practitioners looking after BME children in foster care placements develop a stronger working knowledge of children from BME backgrounds. The aim is to enhance relationships between looked after children and those who care for them so placements can meet the cultural needs of children. Participants will work in syndicates/break-out rooms to examine case studies, enhancing their knowledge and confidence in looking after BME children in care placements

Internet Safety

Internet Safety

FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AS A CHILD SAFEGUARDING ISSUE

To explore the issue of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and the impact on child victims. Practitioners will also gain further knowledge around the socio-cultural and religious factors underpinning the practice and develop skills in identifying individuals at risk. The training will also explore current debates around informed consent and male circumcision.

Dealing with drugs in foster care

Many young people in care have experienced a range of difficulties in their lives. Some may be from homes where they may have experienced trauma and where regular use of drugs is common place. This may in turn affect their own attitudes towards substance use. This course provides a practical guide to foster carers and social workers on current drug trends and how to provide advice and support to young people in their care.

Trauma informed record keeping- Dr Lisa Cherry

When a person comes to read their records, care experienced adults will want to read what has been written to support them to make meaning of the events that happened in childhood.

Moving & manual handling

This course provides comprehensive training on the theoretical aspects of moving and handling

Introduction to Child Exploitation

This training course will provide delegates with an understanding of the different types of exploitation and awareness of the grooming processes used by perpetrators. The course will also explore the signs and indicators of exploitation

Contextual Exploitation

Contextual safeguarding is an approach to understanding and responding to young people’s risk of harm beyond their families, and into social contexts.

Safeguarding Children Living With Foster Carers,-Learning from case reviews 2007-2019

Safeguarding Children Living With Foster Carers,-Learning from case reviews 2007-2019

Understanding the cultural and safeguarding needs of BME children in foster care

To enable foster carers and practitioners looking after BME children in foster care placements develop a stronger working knowledge of children from BME backgrounds. The aim is to enhance relationships between looked after children and those who care for them so placements can meet the cultural needs of children. Participants will work in syndi-cates/break-out rooms to examine case studies, enhancing their knowledge and confidence in looking after BME children in care placements.

Leaving Care Training

Leaving care training- The transition for young people from fostering to leaving care. How can you help the transiting process as a foster carer.

Facilitating Contact Training

Effective communication with children -Standard 4&7 TSDS

Everyone in the children’s workforce needs to be able to communicate effectively with children and young people. The Communicating with Children and Young People course enables learners to understand how the general principles of effective communication can be applied specifically to work with children and young people. It also addresses record keeping and confidentiality in the context of communicating with children.

Managing Disclosure

Paediatric First Aid: Standard 3 TSDS

Our Blended Full Paediatric First Aid course combines 6hrs of practical training with 6hrs of at home eLearning. Our web-based, interactive and user-friendly eLearning module must be completed prior to the practical day. Learners can access the module as many times as required via a computer/laptop/tablet and phone. The face-to-face training day is 6 hours of practical, trainer-led training to maximise recall and provide learners with the skills, knowledge and confidence to act effectively when paediatric

Paediatric First Aid- Standard 3 TSDS

Our Blended Full Paediatric First Aid course combines 6hrs of practical training with 6hrs of at home eLearning. Our web-based, interactive and user-friendly eLearning module must be completed prior to the practical day. Learners can access the module as many times as required via a computer/laptop/tablet and phone. The face-to-face training day is 6 hours of practical, trainer-led training to maximise recall and provide learners with the skills, knowledge and confidence.