What is this course about?
Supporting children who have lived through trauma calls for acceptance, curiosity and empathy, and a parenting style that differs from traditional approaches. This is the foundation of therapeutic parenting and trauma informed care - a way of caring that places connection at the heart of healing. By strengthening the relationship between carer and child, therapeutic parenting helps children make sense of their experiences and better understand their emotions and behaviours.
Through this training, you’ll learn how to better understand children’s behaviours, respond with confidence, and create stronger, more secure relationships that help children to feel secure, understood, and support them to thrive.
Learn from trusted experts
This course is delivered by Nancy Magon and Ange Durling, Practice Consultants at The Fostering Network.
Drawing on their qualifications and extensive frontline backgrounds, they bring rich, practical insight into therapeutic and trauma informed support for fostering families, creating training that balances solid theory with lived professional experience
Why join this training?
Deepen your understanding of trauma
Explore how trauma affects brain development, attachment, and behaviour—and why children respond the way they do.
Build therapeutic skills that make a difference
Gain practical strategies to support children in feeling safe, settled, and supported in their recovery.
Feel more confident in challenging moments
Learn tools to respond calmly and effectively, reducing stress and improving outcomes for both you and the child.
Invest in your professional development
Develop specialist knowledge in therapeutic parenting and trauma-informed care for those working across fostering, social care, and education.
What will you learn?
- How trauma shapes children’s development, behaviour, and emotional responses
- Practical ways to apply therapeutic approaches in everyday caregiving
- Techniques for therapeutic communication—even during distress or challenging behaviour
- How to move beyond behaviour management to meet underlying emotional needs
- Strategies to strengthen relationships and build trust and connection
- Tools for your own emotional regulation and self-care
Who is this training for?
- Foster carers and kinship carers
- Supervising social workers and fostering practitioners
- Fostering services looking to develop their trauma-informed practice
Booking details:
Member rate £110 plus VAT
Non-member rate £149 plus VAT
This course will be delivered via Zoom, registration will begin at 9:15, confirmed delegates will be sent joining instructions by email a few days before the course start date.
For more information contact [email protected] or speak to your fostering service about funding a place on this course.
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02 Jul 26 - 02 Jul 26
09:30 - 16:00
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£110 plus VAT
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