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Module 1 – Preparing & Adjusting To Your New Role – Carer
Why this resource
Stepping into foster or kinship care takes courage — not because you have to be perfect, but because you’re willing to show up with an open heart, even when you don’t yet have all the answers. This resource is here to walk beside you, helping you build steadiness, confidence and compassion — for the child in your care, and for yourself — as you begin this journey together.
Module 2 – Working within a system – Carer
Why this resource
Caring for a child within the child protection system means working alongside many people, services, and decisions. This can feel confusing, overwhelming, or unclear at times, especially when carers are already managing the day-to-day needs of a child. This resource exists to help carers understand the system around them, know who does what, and recognise what support is available.
Module 3 – Creating a Therapeutic Environment in your home – Carer
Why this resource
Children entering care often come from unpredictable, stressful and unsafe environments. Your home can become a powerful place of healing, not because it’s perfect but because it’s safe, calm, steady and nurturing. The guide offers simple, everyday strategies to create a home that support nervous system regulation, reduced overwhelm and helps children feel secure.
Module 4 – Contact & Emotional Support – Carer
Why this resource
For children in out-of-home care, family contact is not an optional extra; it is a core part of their identity, safety and emotional world. Even when contact is complex, inconsistent, or shaped by trauma, family relationships remain psychologically significant for the child. As a carer, you play a vital role in supporting the child through the full emotional arc of contact including the lead-up, the time during contact, and the transition back into everyday life within your care.
Module 5 – A Chance to Reflect – Carer
Why this resource
Caring for children in the out-of-home care system is meaningful, demanding and deeply relational work. This guide supports carers to think about placements, reflect on what children and families need and understand how their own wellbeing shapes their capacity to provide safe, steady care.
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Module 6 – Trauma & impacts on behaviour – Carer
Why this resource
Many children have lived through experiences that felt overwhelming or confusing, and this can shape how safe they feel, how they relate to adults, and how they show their needs through behaviour. This resource helps carers understand behaviour through a lens of safety and connection rather than blame. It explains why children may react strongly, withdraw, or struggle with trust, and reminds carers that these responses are not deliberate or personal but connected to a child’s trauma.
Module 7 – Holding Space for Emotions – Carer
Why this resource
This module is designed to help carers understand why children may react strongly, how to respond in ways that support regulation and connection, and how to repair relationships when ruptures occur. By providing a clear framework, practical strategies, and reflective practices, it empowers carers to feel confident and grounded, even in difficult moments. It emphasises that the goal is not to “fix” the child, but to hold space for their feelings, build trust, and model healthy emotional regulation.
Module 8 – Sexual Development, Boundaries & Consent – Carer
Why this resource
Children and young people in care may have complex experiences that affect their sexual development. This quick guide helps carers respond confidently, compassionately, and appropriately to questions, behaviours, and situations relating to sexual development, consent, and safety—online and offline.
Module 9 – Courageous Conversations – Carer
Why this resource
Carers are often asked to have difficult conversations within complex systems, particularly when advocating for a child’s safety and wellbeing. This module gently supports carers to find their voice, feel more confident and grounded when speaking up, and understand advocacy as a natural part of caring well. It acknowledges that speaking up can feel hard not because carers lack skill, but because systems can feel overwhelming, inconsistent, or intimidating.
Module 10 – A Chance to Reflect – Carer
Why this resource
Caring for children in the out-of-home care system is meaningful, demanding and deeply relational work. This guide supports carers to think about placements, reflect on what children and families need and understand how their own wellbeing shapes their capacity to provide safe, steady care.
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Module 11 – Holding on to Hope – Carer
Why this resource
Caring for children who have experienced trauma can be deeply meaningful — and deeply exhausting. This resource helps you understand hope as an active practice, not just a feeling. It explores burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious growth, while offering realistic, grounded strategies to sustain you, your family, and the child in your care.
Module 12 – Preparing for the years ahead – Carer
Why this resource
Caring for children over time is a journey that unfolds in layers. There are seasons of settling, seasons of stretch, and moments where it helps to pause and take stock. Preparing for the years ahead is not about predicting what will happen. It is about noticing what has already been built, what has changed, and what support helps care remain steady and sustainable. As you read, you may notice questions woven through the module. These are gentle invitations to reflect — you don’t need to answer them all, or answer them at all.