Parent And Child Placements training

Parent and Child Placements can offer an alternative to a child being received into care. Foster carers are in a unique position to role model good parenting and therefore effect change and alter entrenched patterns of poor parenting. The aim is to role model good parenting to prevent family breakdown and the knock on effects of this for children.

The course is aimed at carers who have generally had prior experience of fostering children but does not necessarily exclude those wishing to offer a child and parent placement for the first time.

The course is written to give carers a flavour of what it might be like to care for a child and also his or her parent/s too.

Access this course as part of the following online course package(s):

Foster Care

This course will cover:
  • The background, nature, scope and legal framework of parent and child placements
  • Insights into the practical reality of parent and child placements
  • Risk assessment skills including when to intervene
  • The principles and practicalities of recording for court reports
  • The use of observational skills
  • Providing feedback to parents and ways of teaching parenting

This Parent and Child Placements course has been designed specifically for foster carers who want to find out more about offering parent and child placements and how to be a good parenting role model.Whilst it provides focus for people working in Children's Services, it will also be useful to a wider audience of people who would like to know more about this alternative offering.We can deliver this course either: online, as a webinar, or as a face-to-face programme. If you have your own LMS and would like this course as a SCORM file, please get in touch.

The online version of this course will take 1.5 hours to complete. The webinar versions are usually 2-3 hours long and face to face delivery will usually be around 4-5 hours.

You can access this course in three ways, as an online course, as a webinar, or with face-to-face delivery.

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Parent And Child Placements eLearning course - Grey Matter Learning

Aims of the Parent And Child Placements course

By the end of this course, you will:

  • Understand the background, nature, scope and legal framework of child and parent placements
  • Understand which types of cases may be suitable for child and parent placement referrals
  • Gain insights into the practical reality of Child & Parent placements
  • Understand risk assessment skills including when to intervene
  • Understand the principles and practicalities of recording for court reports
  • Know about the use of observational skills
  • Be able to provide feedback to parents
  • Understand the different ways of teaching parenting
  • Know how to manage conflict
  • Understand how to look after yourself and your own family

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