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Training & Development

“There is no such thing as a perfect parent, so just be a real one” by Sue Chris
    When you make your decision to foster, there may come so many doubts around your capability and that’s why Blossom is here as your mentor. We sit with you and prepare you to foster and clear your doubts by planning and developing a personalized training and development program specific to your needs. Before becoming an approved foster carer, you will attend a number of training workshops, as well as our ‘Skills to Foster’ course. You will also be in regular contact with one of our assessing social workers, who will guide and advise you, and generally prepare you for the task of fostering. The ‘Skills to Foster’ course is one of the primary training exercises you will complete in becoming an approved foster carer. The programme focuses on practical day-to-day skills and links into the Training, Support and Development Standards, other professional development qualifications and the competency-based assessment process. As part of your pre-approval training, you will also be required to attend several training workshops, which can cover areas such as attachment, allegations and safe caring to provide you the base knowledge to foster.

Training Programmes

  1. Once you become an approved foster carer, there are monthly training sessions, which include subjects on child-related matters such as child protection, recording skills and drug awareness.
  2. There is also a comprehensive training programme available at Blossom, which covers all ages and aspects of fostering children and young people. Your supervising social worker will identify any training that will help you in meeting the needs of hour.
  3. your current child in your care or will contribute to you developing a specialist role e.g. working with mothers and babies.
  4. Each foster carer has a training profile, which documents all the courses attended.
  5. Professional Support with completing a formal induction workbook process Training, Support & Development Standards (TSDS)
  6. Access to ongoing foster carer training provided by in house and specialist external trainers
  7. Access to online training- e-learning.