| Audience |
Foster carers |
| Course Level |
3 |
| Hours |
10 |
Learning criteria
- Identify relevant legislation
- policies and procedures relating to foster care and know how to find further information
- Explain the overall aims of your fostering service
- and explain the role and responsibilities of foster carers.
- Explain the importance of agency policies and procedures (including complaints and allegations)
- Explain how you can build individual and family resilience to mitigate the impact of living and working with traumatised children and young people
- Reflect on how you can contribute to teamwork as part of the foster care team
- Explain how you can contribute to the planning process for children and young people
- including your participation in meetings and reviews
Learning outcomes
- Understand the context of foster care: legislation; agency policies and procedures; roles and responsibilities
- Understand working as part of the foster care team