What Cwmbran Foster Carers Need to Know About Training
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Training is a central part of fostering, and so it is very helpful to understand what to expect as a potential foster parent.
Skills to Foster Comes First
The Skills to Foster training program, which consists of several sessions of around 15-20 hours covering topics such as the child’s development, behaviour, safe caring and the birth family, is to be completed prior to approval as a foster carer.
Pre-Approval and Post-Approval Are Different
Once approved as foster carers, you will continue to complete training modules to develop your skills to care for children with complex needs. Some examples of training that current carers have completed include understanding trauma, understanding attachment, and first aid.
Fitting Training Around Your Life
The times and venues for training sessions for Foster Care Cwmbran placements are generally in the evenings and at weekends to accommodate Foster Carers who are in full time employment and/or have other caring responsibilities.
E-Learning Sits Alongside Face-to-Face Sessions
Online training is used to deliver background information such as an introduction to foster care legislation, safeguarding children, and recording information. Face to face training sessions then explore in more detail the information that has been delivered using discussion, role play and scenario planning.
Foster Care Cwmbran is covered in more detail at https://saferfostering.org.uk/foster-care-wales/cwmbran.
Keep a Training Log
Recording your training and development in a log with the date of each session, details of what you learned and how you will apply it to your foster children is very important. This is checked by your supervising social worker at your annual review and helps your social worker to assess your readiness to look after children with more complex needs.
Keeping track of all your training from the offset will prevent many future problems.
