Parenting Smart – Online Course for The Fostering Network in Scotland
Parenting Smart – Online Course for The Fostering Network in Scotland
Please note that registration is now closed for this course for 2024.
For registered foster carers in Scotland, this course will give you extra tools to help strengthen your relationship with the children in your care.
Overview
Place2Be has developed this free online parenting course in partnership with South London and Maudsley-NHS Foundation Trust. It's based on tried and tested techniques and experiences from supporting children, young people, and their families. This course is designed to support carers of primary-age children.
Please note that this Parenting Smart - Online Course is only available for foster carers registered in Scotland. We're running the course in partnership with The Fostering Network in Scotland and with the support of STV's Children’s Appeal.
Course details
- 4-week programme, broken down into 15-minute sections to fit around your day.
- Flexible access to the programme via any device and at a time that suits you.
- Dedicated Place2Be professional to join discussions and aid online learning.
- Dynamic and safe learning community offering the opportunity to learn from other parents' and carers' experiences.
- Opportunity to book a one-to-one remote session with one of our family practitioners during October 2024 upon completion of the course (you can book this Zoom session after you complete the course – please note there will be limited space available).
The course mirrors our face-to-face training provided to parents and carers in primary schools and is split into six modules. Each module focuses on one parenting skill that will help improve your relationships with the children you are caring for and help you in responding to challenging behaviour.
Modules
- Connecting: How to build a strong bond with your child
- Praise & Reward: How to encourage desired behaviours
- Selective Ignoring: How to discourage unwanted behaviours
- Clear Instructions: How to ensure your child understands what is expected of them
- Boundaries and Consequences: How to set limits in advance in an effective way
- Time Out to calm down: How to manage extreme behaviours
Background
We have based Place2Be’s Parenting Smart – Online Course on the Personalised Individual Parent Training (PIPT), a parent training intervention developed by the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. PIPT aims to promote positive child/parent relationships and has proven especially effective with children between three and eight years old.
We’ve worked closely with the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to create this online course so you can learn more about PIPT in a convenient way.
FAQs
Do you have more questions? Take a look at our frequently asked questions (FAQs) for this course. If you require more information, please email parenting.smart@place2be.org.uk.
Meet our experts
Here is the brilliant team that has developed our parenting course. Once you join the programme, you will be introduced to your course facilitator, one of Place2Be’s Family Practitioners.
What other people have said
“This has been a very rewarding course to do. I think all foster carers and kinship carers should do this. I have been a foster carer for 30 years and I got a lot out of this.”
“I find out this course very helpful and I do appreciate every comment from this group as sharing thought and experiences are sometimes difficult but we can learn from each other to make thing better for us and children in our care.”
“This was a great course, really enjoyed it and it was extremely helpful. I am going to phone my link worker to recommend it to all foster and kinship carers. Thank you”
Our free resources for parents and carers
Registration for this Parenting Smart course is now closed for 2024, but our Parenting Smart resources for parents and carers are always available.
Our free Parenting Smart resources include practical advice and tried and tested tips for parents and carers of primary-age children.