NFCQ Groups
NFCQ Groups pioneering new programme for foster carers and fostering providers.
The NFCQ Groups have been developed to harness the power of relational and reflective work, interpersonal interaction and mutual support, to raise standards, outcomes and stability for foster carers, providers and the children in their care.
Run as safe learning spaces to enhance NFCQ education with a focus on trauma informed therapeutic care, building confidence, and develop a foster carer community accomplished in all aspects and requirements of their fostering role.
NFCQ groups are a simple, time and resource efficient way to develop confident skilled qualified foster carers, plus an effective way for them to connect and build strong networks of support for the fostering family in the wider context.
Harnessing the power of NFCQ Groups
- Learn together, share experience and knowledge with colleagues
- Develop reflective practice, relate theory to practice
- Build confidence, develop resilience
- Connect and build networks to support the fostering family in the wider context
- Develop trauma informed therapeutic practice
- Develop communication skills
- Facilitate critical thinking and enhance self awareness
- Counts towards CPD
- Guest speakers/lecturers
The benefits for fostering providers
- Develop confident, reflective, trauma informed foster carers
- Improve placement stability, permanence and carer retention
- Foster carers connect, build relationships and strong networks of support for the fostering family in the wider context
- Engage with foster carer’s requests for more professional recognition
- Enhance foster carer recruitment, appeal to a wider demographic
- Ease pressure on current resources, compliments supervision
- Opportunity for peer learning and support for new foster carers with mixed levels of experience within NFCQ Groups
- The convenience and flexibly of online meetings with the option of meeting face to face or a hybrid of both
- Groups facilitate strong relationships and sustainable links, empower foster carers to support each other and overcome issues before they escalate and lead to placement breakdown
- Inclusivity, including mainstream, specialist, disability, Kinship, SGO
NFCQ Groups Coordinators
- Group Coordinators will have attained NFCQ Foundation and NFCQ Coordinator’s Course.
- The Group Coordinator works in collaboration and fellowship with fostering colleagues. It is not a supervisory or advisory role.
- Group work is underpinned by NMS and statutory regulation. They operate within boundaried parameters, safeguarding protocol and work in synergy with their providers.
- NFCQ can provide group coordinators at supplementary cost to standard licence fee
NFCQ Qualifications
Foundation course in fostering
This course contains the child-focused standards and values required by foster carers to secure positive welfare, health, educational and safeguarding outcomes for children and to deliver trauma-informed care.
Intermediate course in fostering
Currently in development, this intermediate course will build on the foundation course and will develop your skills and knowledge further and provide a more in-depth study into complex areas such as trauma-informed care.
Advanced course in fostering
The advanced course in fostering will build on the intermediate course and foundation course skills. This course will explore the social impact and implications of foster care, the wider fostering sector, social inclusion and equality.