Commissioned Training
AFKA Scotland can provide bespoke, commissioned training for agencies with a specific requirement. Please contact us directly to enquire about booking a commissioned training or download our Training Training Topics Brochure 2026-2027
Topics on training we have provided in the past include:
- Achieving best outcomes at children’s hearings
- Adoption and fostering panel advisers
- Advancing through the permanence process
- Advising on permanence matters for solicitors
- An introduction to adoption and fostering panels
- An introduction to chairing foster carer reviews
- Assessing families for black and minority ethnic (BME) children
- Assessing kinship carers
- Assessing LGBTI carers and adopters
- Be court ready – keeping knowledge and skills current
- Child’s Adoption and Permanence report (CAPR)
- Child protection in family placement
- Court decisions in adoption and permanence cases
- Family time – applying best practice to decisions about contact in hearings and court
- Foster carers need to know about the law
- Foster carer reviews
- Kinship care panel training
- Life story approaches and resources
- Making good assessments in adoption and foster care
- Minute taking – adoption and fostering panels
- Minute taking – kinship care panels
- Minute taking for looked after and accommodated child care reviews and child protection planning meetings
- Presenting at adoption and fostering panels for family placement workers
- Presenting at adoption and permanence panels for children and families workers
- Professional report writing
- Rethinking family time
- Safer caring in fostering
- Secure base model and its application in the fostering, kinship and adoption context
- Staying together and connected: assessing brother and sister relationships
- Supporting foster carers and kinship carers at children’s hearings
- Supervising social worker in fostering: role, functions and skills