Akamas
Experience Learning
SUPERVISING FOSTER CARE: PROMOTING AND MANAGING THERAPEUTIC FAMILY LIFE
This unique course uses a mixture of face-to-face and online learning to address the role of the Foster Care Supervisor in the context of standards for the management and training of Foster Carers.
Content and Structure
The course consists of one day of face-to-face training and an online module which includes access to supporting online resources for up to a year.
- Session one: Supervising therapeutic
families
- Why children looked after in public care should be recognised as traumatised children.
- What traumatised children and young people need in order to recover.
- The role of the supervisor in promoting and managing therapeutic family care.
- Producing a personal plan for supervision of a therapeutic family
- Session two: Supervising learning
- What the standards say.
- The challenges and benefits of applying standards to training in foster care.
- The role of the supervising social worker.
- Assessing learning needs and planning to meet them.
- Supervising learners.
- An online module
- This module enables supervising social workers to transfer learning on the face-to-face course into practice and gain experience of the online learning environment.
- It includes research, case studies and articles that social workers can use to enhance their work with foster carers and develop themselves as assessors of learning.
Learning Outcomes
This course will enable participants:
- To understand what traumatised children need in order to recover and adapt.
- To explore what foster carers need from supervision so that they can provide a therapeutic family experience for children and young people.
- To identify the challenges and benefits of applying standards in foster care training.
- To explore the implications for practice of supervising to standards.
- To understand the learning needs of foster carers and their families.
- To explore the implications for supervision of enabling and supporting foster carers to learn.
Key Features
The price includes:
- One day of training for up to 25 delegates
- Access for one year to the online module and supporting resources
- Training packs
- Evaluation sheets
- Attendance certificates
Booking Information
If you have any questions or would like to request details by post, please complete our Enquiry Form or call 01453 541860.
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