Webinars

Two sets of online sessions, both run on Eventbrite, and both free. One is for anyone thinking about fostering. The other is safeguarding training for professionals, run under our Critical Actions brand, which is free when you book through Sparks Fostering.

Could you be a foster carer?

A free online session for anyone thinking about fostering. It runs most Thursdays at 10am, and there is no obligation at the end of it.

Who can foster and who cannot, what the assessment involves and how long it takes, what carers are paid, what support comes with it, and who the children are. You can ask anything, and you do not have to say anything at all if you would rather listen.

Sessions are listed on our Eventbrite page and run most Thursdays at 10am, with other dates added. See the dates and book a free place.

If you cannot make any of the sessions, call us on 07920 097 834 or email [email protected] and we will arrange a conversation at a time that works.

Critical Actions — safeguarding training

Case-based safeguarding training for social workers, foster carers, teachers and anyone else working with children. Critical Actions is a safeguarding training and development framework, sponsored by Sparks Fostering. Sessions are normally paid, but they are free through Sparks — use the code below when you book.

Each session is built around a real case and works through what was known, what was missed, and what would have had to happen differently. The framework is about identifying, analysing and responding to risk — not about learning a procedure by heart.

Recent and upcoming sessions have covered the Hackney foster care case and allegations, the Marcia Grant case and keeping carers safe, the case of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, the Daniel Pelka case and hearing the voice of the child, and the Sara Sharif case and keeping children safe.

See the current dates and book.

Critical Actions sessions are normally paid. Book through Sparks Fostering and they are free — enter the code SP4RKS at checkout on Eventbrite.

You could be welcoming a child to your home soon

Apply to Foster Now

Or call 07920 097 834  ·  [email protected]