Research shows that children and young people need to have positive male role models in their lives for healthy social, emotional and behavioural development. Yet being a man who works with children is challenging.

This Men in Foster Care course explores the challenges and promotes gender competence throughout the workforce.

This course will cover:

• The benefits of men being involved as foster carers
• The challenges that men feel they face in a fostering role
• Good practice around solutions for some of these challenges
• Safer care and male foster carers in the context of managing allegations

By the end of the training, you will:

• Understand the importance of gender competence in all work with children and young people
• Understand the gender related needs of a young person who has a distorted narrative about gender
• Understand the concept of involved fathering and the importance of men in the children’s workforce.

This Men in Foster Care course has been designed specifically for people who want to know more about providing a positive male role model in the lives of looked after children.

Whilst it provides focus for people working in Children's Services, it will also be useful to a wider audience of people who would like to know more about the benefits and challenges faced by men in foster care.

We can deliver this course either: online, as a webinar, or as a face-to-face programme. If you have your own LMS and would like this course as a SCORM file, please get in touch.