Foundation course in fostering
Enrol in our comprehensive foster carer courses and gain the skills needed to make a positive impact on children’s lives.
The NFCQ Foundation Course in Fostering
Enrol in our iTOL-accredited comprehensive foster carer courses and gain the skills needed to make a positive impact on children’s lives.
Whether you are just embarking on your fostering journey or if you are an experienced carer wanting to refresh your knowledge, it is vital to understand that as carers, apart from providing a loving family home, we have professional and legal obligations too, this is not something that is always fully explained as we start our journey.
What does the course aim to do?
- Explain the national minimum standards and statutory legislation that provide the framework for the foster carer’s role.
- Be able to identify the principles and values of the foster carer.
- Understanding trauma and its impact on brain development.
- Understanding behaviour through relational approaches.
- Understand the significance of the child’s wishes and feelings and the views of those significant to them.
- Show understanding of how to promote a positive identity, and potential and value diversity through individualised care.
- Summarise how to promote positive behaviour and relationships.
- Analyse how to promote good health and well-being.
- Appreciate and explain the importance of promoting educational attainment.
- Evaluate the obligations to promote and support contact and reunification and its benefits.
- Be able to explain how you will prepare for a placement.
- Understand how to promote independence, move to adulthood and leaving care.
- Understand the importance of and explain how to promote leisure activities.
- Summarise the Training, Support and Development standards, and evaluate their significance to your practice and explain how you will do them.
Created by the National Foster Carer’s Qualifications (NFCQ) and FosterWiki, experts in foster care advocacy.
The NFCQ
Accredited Foundation Course in Fostering
Course Feedback
“Well done, it will be so helpful for new carers. It will definitely let them know that it’s not “just a spare room” you need! It’s a massive improvement on the skills for fostering course I did, with relevant information to try and prepare you for your first child arrival.”
“After completing this course a new foster carer stated that she now had a list of questions to ask during the matching process which she would not have thought to ask before”
“Lessons 3 and 4 are important as it seems very few carers can take courses on trauma, and it affects every child in some way. Certainly, the skills to foster will not cover the subject!”
“Whoever put this together knows what is needed to be a foster carer, this information would have been much more welcome than the ’skills to fostering’ course my wife and I did.”
You will benefit from courses written by top experts in their fields and underpinned by regulations. We put trauma-informed relational education at the heart of the NFCQ to create wide-ranging, lasting change and make a significant difference to young lives, we put children first, raising standards and outcomes.
The NFCQ provide flexible learning from any location at a speed dictated by you.