Project
The Park Parenting Approach
Purpose
To give foster carers the understanding and skills to look after vulnerable children
Funding
Fostering agency Park Foster Care provides the course. The core cost is about £2,000 for nine weeks if delivered to an outside organisation, not including childcare and resources
Background
Fostering is a complex role. Park Foster Care, an independent fostering agency operating across the West Midlands, North West and East Midlands, was keen to ensure its carers got the best possible training. However, generic parenting programmes did not quite fit the bill, especially when it came to the challenges of caring for children and young people who had experienced abuse or neglect. "We'd used programmes like Triple P and Webster-Stratton but found we were going off-script a lot of the time," explains agency manager Philippa Kelly, a social work consultant trained in family therapy and mental health social work with children and adults.
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