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- It's a Piece of Cake
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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 |
| 22 May 2013 | Exploring the Mindsight Approach to Parenting With Dan Siegel M.D. One-day event | Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire |
| 23 May 2013 | From Adoption UK, Wales: *FULL* When Parenting is Challenging One-day event | Swansea |
| Between April 2013 and March 2014 | Learning connect - Life in the classroom - helping adopted children in school Eight one-day events | Chester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Bristol, Sheffield & Maidstone |
| 10 June 2013 | Meeting the Learning Needs of Vulnerable Children One-day event | Uttoxeter |
| 19 June 2013 | Learning connect - Social networking and contact One-day event | London |
| 3 July 2013 | From Adoption UK, Wales: Seeing adolescence as an opportunity not a threat One-day event | Swansea |
| 31 August and 7 September 2013 | *NEW* Getting ready for placement Two day event | Cookstown, Northern Ireland |
19 Sep | Learning connect - Life story work One-day event | Taunton |
16 - 17 Sep | *NEW* from Adoption UK and BAAF Cymru: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) Level One Two two-day events | Cardiff |
| 16 November 2013 | *NEW* Annual Conference & AGM The PLACE for Parenting with Dan Hughes PhD One-day event | Birmingham |
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.