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Training
Adoption UK provides training for prospective adopters, adoptive parents, long-term foster carers and a wide range of practitioners. Understanding how looked-after and adopted children can best be helped is central to all the training we offer.
Adoption UK training is available to members and non-members. All conferences, seminars and workshops are delivered by a team of skilled in-house trainers - all of whom are experienced adopters with vast amounts of personal and professional knowledge.
Date | Training Event | Location |
| 20.02.12 | Effective Adoption Support: preventing adoption disruptions Joint conference in partnership with BAAF One-day conference | London |
| 27.02.12 | What about me? Attachment in the Classroom: practical strategies to help adopters and teachers One-day conference | Belfast |
| 09.03.12 | Children Who Struggle at School: helping traumatised children with school and learning One-day workshop | Coventry |
| 10.03.12 | Children Who Struggle at School: helping traumatised children with school and learning One-day workshop | Strabane |
| 23.03.12 | Pre-natal Alcohol and the Adopted Child One-day conference | Dundee |
| 24.03.12 | Children Who Struggle at School: helping traumatised children with school and learning One-day workshop | Antrim |
| 12.05.12 | Meeting the Learning Needs of Vulnerable Pupils One-day workshop | Uttoxeter |
| 28.05.12 | Knowing you, Knowing me: Life story work - therapy or child's play? One-day conference *Further information available soon | Birmingham |
| 02.07.12 | Social Networking: the implications for adopted children and families One-day conference *Further information available soon | Milton Keynes |
It's a Piece of Cake?
Adoption UK’s acclaimed parenting programme has been improving the lives of adoptive and foster families for nearly ten years. This unique six-day programme for adopters and long-term foster carers provides a fresh approach to parenting hurt children, helping to minimise family distress, placement disruption and breakdown. The programme is designed for parents and carers who have had a child in placement for at least one year
Training for practitioners: Insight and Strategies
Adoption UK also provides specialist training for social work, education and health care practitioners working with adoptive and foster families. If you are an agency interested in purchasing Adoption UK training packages, please contact our Training team.
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- Workshops
- Adoption UK runs a number of workshops around the country, to bring the latest ideas on adoption-related issues to prospective adopters, adoptive parents and practitioners.
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- Please contact us for more information on any of the training we provide or to book your place.