Family and Community

Family & Community external events listings are posted to inform the wider community about external events including workshops, opportunities for families, children and young people, and helpful resources.

  • Medical Advisers for Adoption and Fostering

    Offered by CORAM BAAF, we will use the day for updates on recent changes to national guidance or legislation and any changes to CoramBAAF advice.
  • Life Story Events

    Offered by CORAM BAAF, this open course will enable participants to explore best practice in the facilitation of ongoing life story work which will enable children’s and young people’s understanding of their past, acceptance of their present and hopefulness about the future.
  • The Role of Panel Members

    Offered by CORAM BAAF, this course gives panel members the opportunity to deepen their understanding around this underestimated skill.
  • Managing Allegations

    Offered by CORAM BAAF, this course will provide an opportunity to consider how we can manage allegations and concerns, with the rigour and challenge needed, whilst also considering the need for foster carers to receive sensitive support, that enables them to manage risks and keep everyone in the fostering household safe.
  • Supporting Special Guardianship Families

    Offered by CORAM BAAF, This course will explore the support needs of special guardianship families, how to carry out assessment of support needs which are sensitive to the needs of kinship care families, and the how these needs may be most effectively met.
  • Kinship Care

    Offered by CORAM BAAF, this two hour training is for professionals within member local authorities, both social workers and lawyers, who are involved in the placement of children currently living in England to kinship carers overseas on a Special Guardianship Order.
  • Effective Supervision

    Offered by CORAM BAAF, ​this course is designed to support those who have previously attended “The role of the supervising social worker in supervising and supporting foster carers” and now looking to develop their practice further.
  • Introduction to Neurodiversity

    Offered by CORAM BAAF, this course is for professionals working in adoption, fostering and kinship care professionals and those working in education and health settings, who would like an introduction to neurodiversity, and would like to develop their skills in working with neurodiversity in children and young people.
  • Celebrating Difference

    Offered by Children in Wales, Celebrating Difference- Bridging the Divide is a parent led training project to help professionals better understand children with additional learning needs.
  • Using Digital Sandtrays

    This course gives an overview of digital sandtrays within play therapy and other therapeutic practice.