Training and emotional support for kinship carers
Empower Service
Offers a five-week Kinship Training and Support Group with face-to-face workshops on trauma, attachment, behaviour, and self-care. Booking is through your lead professional, and support may include assessments and help with therapeutic funding.
Kinship Training and Events
Kinship run a range of training, events and roadshows for kinship carers, held in person regionally and online.
View the kinship training and events available
Fostering Support
Kinship foster carers, whether temporarily or fully approved, can access the same training as all foster carers. The training offer changes regularly—see the Local Resources website for the latest prospectus.
ParentTalk (Action for Children)
Action for Children run ParentTalk, which offers advice and resources as well as time to talk to a parenting coach via webchat at specific times.
Anna Freud Centre
The Anna Freud Centre has a lot of online resources to help kinship carers, foster carers and adopters think about how trauma can affect how kinship child might behave and relate to others, with advice about how to respond and care.
Visit the Anna Freud Centre website
Beacon House
Beacon House is a therapeutic services and trauma team who offer a lot of online resources to help carers understand how developmental trauma might affect a kinship child
