Learn about fostering, at your own pace
22 short handbooks, the same ones used to prepare new foster carers. Start with number 1, or with whatever is on your mind.
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22 handbooks
- LF2522
Foster Carers' Roles and Responsibilities
What foster care is, why children come into care, and what foster carers actually do.
Stage 1: The basics About an hour - LF2523
Identity and Life Chances
How foster carers help a child feel proud of who they are, and get a fair start in life.
Stage 1: The basics About an hour - LF2524
Working with Others
The team around a fostered child, the plans that guide their care, and keeping family links.
Stage 1: The basics About an hour - LF2525
Understanding and Caring for Children
Attachment, behaviour and resilience, and how a secure base helps a child to settle.
Stage 1: The basics About an hour - LF2526
Safer Caring
Keeping children safe, and keeping your own family safe, in everyday family life.
Stage 1: The basics About an hour - LF2527a
Transitions
Helping children through moves, and preparing young people for adult life.
Stage 1: The basics About an hour - LF2528
My Family Fosters
Written for the children of foster carers: what fostering will mean for them.
Stage 1: The basics About an hour - LF2500
Confidentiality and GDPR
Keeping information about children and families private, and what data protection law asks of you.
Stage 2: Keeping children safe and well About an hour - LF2501
Internet Safety
Children's online lives today, the risks and the benefits, and how carers keep children safe online.
Stage 2: Keeping children safe and well About an hour - LF2502
Reporting and Recording
Why good records matter in foster care, and how to write them well.
Stage 2: Keeping children safe and well About an hour - LF2503
Medication
Giving, storing and recording medicine safely for the children in your care.
Stage 2: Keeping children safe and well About an hour - LF2508
Fire Safety
How fires start, how to prevent them, and how to keep your household safe.
Stage 2: Keeping children safe and well About an hour - LF2510
Paediatric First Aid
First aid for babies and children, including CPR and the recovery position.
Stage 2: Keeping children safe and well About an hour - LF2516a
Safeguarding (General and Disclosures)
The law on safeguarding, the types of harm, and what to do if a child tells you something.
Stage 2: Keeping children safe and well About an hour - LF2509a
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
How early adversity and trauma affect children, and how carers can help.
Stage 3: Going further 35 min read - LF2504
Managing Allegations
What happens if an allegation is made against a foster carer, and the support available.
Stage 3: Going further 30 min read - LF2505
Safer Caring: Level 1b
Being risk-sensible, not risk-averse: safer caring plans in everyday life.
Stage 3: Going further 10 min read - LF2507a
Equality and Diversity: Celebrating Difference
We are all different, and that is a good thing.
Stage 3: Going further 10 min read - LF2507b
Equality and Diversity: Racism, Discrimination and Intolerance
Recognising racism and discrimination, and protecting the children you care for.
Stage 3: Going further 20 min read - LF2512a
Attachment
Understanding attachment styles to build better relationships with children.
Stage 3: Going further 10 min read - LF2521
Radicalisation and Extremism
How young people can be drawn into extremism, the signs, and the Prevent duty.
Stage 3: Going further 25 min read - LF2531
De-escalation (Non-Physical)
Calming difficult situations without physical intervention.
Stage 3: Going further 15 min read
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