Online courses now available
The Virtual School have partnered with Kate Cairns Associates to provide an extensive range of FREE e-learning courses for the team around the child.
Course List include:
E-Learning Courses Available | Level | Hours | Suitable for |
Adolescence | 3 | 10 | School staff, College staff, Foster carers, Social workers |
Assessing and managing risk | 3 | 10 | Team around the Child |
Behaviour and the physical environment | 3 | 10 | Team around the Child |
Building resilience | 3 | 10 | Team around the Child |
Child development | 3 | 10 | Team around the Child |
Child protection | 3 | 10 | Team around the Child |
Children’s rights | 3 | 10 | Team around the Child |
Communicating with children and young people | 3 | 10 | Team around the Child |
Contact in foster care | 3 | 10 | Foster carers, Social workers, School staff |
Domestic violence | 3 | 10 | Social workers, Specialist school staff, Foster carers, Youth… |
Emotion coaching | 3 | 10 | School staff, Foster carers, Adoptive parents, Residential workers,… |
Equality and diversity | 3 | 10 | Team around the Child |
Impulsive behaviour | 3 | 10 | Foster carers, Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Early Years… |
Multi-disciplinary working | 3 | 10 | Team around the Child |
Narrative work | 3 | 10 | Foster carers, Adopters, School support staff |
Parental mental health issues | 3 | 10 | Social workers, Foster carers, School staff |
Professional development | 3 | 10 | School staff, Foster carers, Social workers, Early years practitioners |
Safer caring | 3 | 10 | Foster carers |
Secondary trauma | 3 | 10 | Team around the Child |
Self-harming behaviours | 3 | 10 | Foster carers, Specialist school staff, Specialist college staff,… |
Sexualised behaviour: Issues in foster care | 3 | 10 | Foster carers, Social workers, Specialist school staff |
Teamwork | 3 | 10 | School support staff, Social work assistants, Children’s centre… |
The role of the foster carer | 3 | 10 | Foster carers |
Transitions and vulnerability | 3 | 10 | Team around the Child |
Understanding trauma | 3 | 10 | Team around the Child |
We have free access available for these courses for Lewisham foster carers, designated teachers and social workers so please complete the contact form: