The Care Leaders Learning
Courses for schools, social workers, foster carers, residential staff and leaders, delivered by people with lived experience of care and professional experience of the work. A real story, the evidence behind it, and tools your staff use the next day. Face to face, live online and on demand.
Every course runs one of two ways, and follows the same learning framework.
We come to you for a training day, usually 10am to 4pm, for up to 60 people. There is time for every story and every activity, and to start using the tools together.
A session on Teams or Zoom for up to 200 people, covering the core of the course, with breakout rooms for the activities. The workbook and online course take people deeper afterwards.
Every part opens with a story told from a child’s or young person’s point of view. Lived experience of care sits alongside professional experience of the work, so the subject feels real from the first minute.
The evidence behind the story, explained simply, so people understand why something happens and not just what to do about it.
A tool, a rewrite or a plan people practise in the room and use with children the next day.
Every delegate gets a workbook to keep, the online course for 12 months, the session recording for 12 months and a certificate of completion. Looking for something that runs over weeks or months? See our programmes. Want Luke Rodgers BEM to speak at your event? See his keynotes.
Start with who you are buying for. Every course can be shaped around your service.
Reading behaviour as communication, and responding without losing the relationship.
ForSchoolsSocial care and fosteringResidential careFamily support
What moving does to a child, and what the adults around them can do about it.
ForSchoolsSocial care and fosteringResidential careFamily support
Reaching boys who have learned to keep adults out, and keeping them in school and at home.
ForSchoolsSocial care and fosteringResidential care
Reading the messages in children’s behaviour, with three tools staff use the next morning.
ForSchools
Teachers and social workers learning each other’s worlds, so children stop falling between them.
ForSchoolsSocial care and fostering
A whole-school day on expecting more of children in care, and helping them get there.
ForSchools
A one-day introduction to non-violent resistance, with 12 months of the online NVR Toolkit.
ForResidential careFamily supportSocial care and fostering
PACE, Spot Soothe Shift, the Window of Tolerance and more, taught as tools people practise in the room.
ForSchoolsSocial care and fosteringResidential careFamily support
Reducing the criminalisation of children in care, for children’s homes, police and youth justice.
ForResidential careSocial care and fosteringEmployers and other agenciesLeaders and councillors
Training and a workbook so records are accurate, useful and written with the child in mind.
ForSocial care and fosteringResidential careFamily support
The words we use about children in care, and the ones that help them feel like children.
ForSchoolsSocial care and fosteringResidential careLeaders and councillors
A one-day introduction to the Five S Framework, for care-experienced people, leaders, or both together.
ForLeaders and councillorsSocial care and fosteringCare-experienced people
A short leadership course for young people in care and care leavers.
ForCare-experienced people
For councillors and leaders: what being a good corporate parent looks like, every day.
ForLeaders and councillors
Trauma-informed training for managers who employ care leavers.
ForEmployers and other agenciesLeaders and councillors
For employers ready to open doors to care-experienced people.
ForEmployers and other agencies
For probation, police, housing and health staff working with care-experienced adults.
ForEmployers and other agencies
Building your care leaver local offer with care leavers, not just for them.
ForLeaders and councillorsSocial care and fosteringCare-experienced people
Self-paced courses, short tools and the Espresso series, for individuals, teams and whole organisations.
ForSchoolsSocial care and fosteringResidential careFamily supportLeaders and councillorsEmployers and other agenciesCare-experienced people
Nothing matches all of those yet. Tell us what you need and we will build it with you.
Contact us for bespoke courses. We build training around your service, your people and the children you work with.
There are plenty of trauma-informed trainers. Very few have lived the care system and led it.
People who grew up in care and people who have led children’s services design and deliver every course together. Not a guest speaker: the whole course.
Every session opens with a real story, adds the evidence behind it and ends with a tool people use the next day.
Our courses were made with councils, schools and children’s homes: NVR in 11 Durham homes, and around 490 school staff signed up in Kent.
Luke Rodgers BEM led engagement on the DfE’s rewrite of the national fostering standards. We have worked with 36 local authorities, and with national bodies including the Department for Education.
Every course is shaped around your team, your procedures and your children. If we do not have it, we build it.
Children & Young People Now Workforce Development Award 2023, and iESE Gold for Dual Perspective Leadership in 2026.
Most of our learning is bought by organisations for their people: virtual schools for their schools, fostering services for their carers, councils for their workforce. Teams of five or more can learn together on the platform, and whole organisations can take a licence. Ask us what fits.
Training we’ve delivered for councils and schools.
Non-violent resistance in 11 children’s homes. 120 residential staff trained.
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Making a town-wide trauma-informed schools programme heard. 427 staff signed up to the training platform and 128 CPD certificates were issued.
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The training designated teachers designed for themselves. 22 designated teachers trained on a 10-month programme they helped design.
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