This workshop aims to provide approved foster carers with an opportunity and safe space to have open conversations on how to care for children from Minoritised racial or cultural backgrounds, as well as working with children in care from white backgrounds to become anti-racist allys.

This Course is for ESCC Foster Carers only.

The First Aid for Foster Carers Course is designed specifically for foster carers, with the objective of giving these individuals the basic knowledge and confidence to carry out simple first aid in the home and to help during an emergency. The First Aid for Foster Carer Course also meet standard 3.3d of TSD Foster Standards

 It is a requirement that all foster carers complete their Training, Support and Development Standards within the first year from approval.

Why do some Children need therapeutic parenting?

How is it different?

Discussing strategies and real life experiences.

This is a mandatory course, all foster carers to complete within 2 years of approval and every 5 years

 It is a requirement that all foster carers complete their Training, Support and Development Standards within the first year from approval.

Are you working with individuals who find it challenging to engage with conventional services or offers of help? Ever asked yourself “what has happened to them” rather than “what is wrong with them?” Then this course is for you.

Trauma informed approaches are strength based and recognise that past experiences, relationships, intersectionality, and context affect current ways of being, relationships and interactions.  The Trauma informed lens reframes behaviour that has been traditionally seen as “resistant, difficult, challenging or problematic” as individuals’ best attempts at coping and surviving.  In this context it is understandably that the relationships practitioners build with people to promote safety, is emotional work, that inevitably impacts upon them.

This multi agency face to face course is facilitated by highly experienced practitioners working in a range of settings including mental health, children’s social care and university and in consultation with Recovery Partners (Experts by Experience).

There is an expectation that you have completed the online course introducing you to Trauma informed Practice ahead of the course date and read the booklet that will be e-mailed to you.  Details of the online course and the booklet will be sent to you closer to the course.

Important note: It is essential that you have undertaken the Safeguarding Children and Young People e-learning, or an equivalent within your own organisation, prior to coming on this course (see additional information under full details), or you may be turned away.

To promote good recording practices in line with the Recording Policy for Foster Carers.

Please note this is for Pre-Approval Carers only

This course will be delivered via an Online TEAMS meeting and you will not be expected to attend a specific venue. The link to attend this training will be sent to you one week before the training date. Please note this email will be sent from the East Sussex Learning Portal. Please make sure you check your Spam/Junk folders for this email. Please read the attached document, Attending Online Training, before joining the course.

This workshop offers an opportunity for staff to raise their awareness and improve confidence on the use of Mental Capacity Act and Inherent Jurisdiction for victims of domestic abuse.

We will explore mental capacity in relation to coercive control and domestic abuse, explain the legal responsibility of Inherent Jurisdiction, its process and when it should be considered, alongside other relevant legislation.

Staff will need to have completed the Domestic Abuse eLearning modules before taking part in this session.

Pre course reading:
Prior to our virtual session please read: -

Research in Practice: The Inherent Jurisdiction of the High Court
inherent_jurisdiction_pg_web.pdf (eastsussexsab.org.uk)

Also please consider looking at the following East Sussex guidance:

Multi-agency Domestic Abuse Guidance
Multi-agency domestic abuse guidance (eastsussexsab.org.uk)

Multi-agency Mental Capacity Procedures
East Sussex Mental Capacity Multi-Agency Policy and Procedures (eastsussexsab.org.uk)

To promote good recording practices in line with the Recording Policy for Foster Carers.

This is a mandatory course.