- “ Helpful, inspiring. ” Foster carer, North East – February 2013
- “ Great course. ” Suzanne Richardson, Suffolk – January 2014
- “ I love this whole brain development understanding. The more I go over it, the more I am understanding what it means and how it links - it's all making more and more sense. ” Laura Dunn, CBC Assessor, Bedfordshire – November 2013
- “ Fascinating ” Foster carer, UK – April 2018
- “ I really enjoyed completing this e-module and would be interested in completing further modules. ” Angela Bridges, Suffolk – June 2013
- “ Good layout and I like being able to go back to previous pages. ” Learner, Hertfordshire – October 2013
- “ I have learnt so much more than I already thought I understood on the subject of Equality and Diversity. This new knowledge will allow me to make a huge difference to society and to my role as a Foster Carer. ” Foster carer, Midlands – November 2017
- “ Excellent! ” Learner, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan – March 2018
- “ Thank you! ” Learner, North London – May 2018
- “ The young person with us at the moment has most of the impulsive behaviours that have been mentioned in the course... it is so helpful to be able to remind myself that these behaviours are not personal. ” Foster carer, North East – December 2012
E-learning
Grounded in an understanding of the needs of children and young people, KCA Online is a key part of our connected learning approach. The online courses aim to develop knowledge, skills and reflection not by taking people out of their workplace, but rather by sending them to explore their workplace and their work relationships as part of an ongoing learning journey.
Activities and exercises require learners to 'stop and think' or 'go and do' and to record their discoveries in their online journal. With the facility for the journal to be shared with a designated learning mentor as a space for online reflective discussion, this makes for superb work-based learning, promoting practical application and professional conversations. Although the learning is guided online, with input from experts, in reality people are learning from and alongside their managers, colleagues and service users.
course list
Our current list includes the following 55 courses (click for more information or to purchase a course place):
Level 2 courses (6)
- Introduction to attachment and brain development
- Introduction to child development
- Introduction to child protection
- Introduction to communicating with children and young people
- Introduction to promoting secure attachment: Brain development and positive parenting
- Introduction to understanding trauma
Level 3 courses (38)
- Adolescence
- Assessing and managing risk
- Attachment and brain development
- Behaviour and the physical environment
- Brain development and positive parenting
- Building resilience
- Child development
- Child protection
- Child protection – Scotland
- Child sexual exploitation: Protecting children and young people from harm
- Child-centred assessment
- Children and young people who misuse substances
- Children's rights
- Communicating with children and young people
- Confidentiality and record keeping
- Contact in foster care
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders: A relationship-based approach to prevention and recovery
- Emotion coaching
- Equality and diversity
- Five to Thrive for Life: Adolescence
- Foetal exposure to alcohol
- Impulsive behaviour
- Making safe connections – the digital revolution, neuroscience and human attachment needs
- Men in children's services
- Multi-disciplinary working
- Narrative work
- Parental mental health issues
- Professional development
- Safer caring
- Secondary trauma
- Self-harming behaviours
- Self-injuring and self-sabotaging behaviours: A relationship-based approach to prevention and recovery
- Sexualised behaviour: Issues in foster care
- Teamwork
- The role of the foster carer
- Transitions and vulnerability
- Understanding trauma
Level 4 courses (11)
- Behaviour and the physical environment: Adapting the physical environment to promote recovery from trauma
- Building individual and community resilience
- Emotion coaching: A systemic, relational approach to behaviour
- Equality and diversity in professional practice
- Foetal alcohol spectrum disorders: Systemic approaches to improving life chances for children and young people
- Maladaptive behaviours: Promoting recovery for children who harm themselves
- Narrative work: The development of a positive sense of self
- Secondary trauma and community resilience
- Sexualised behaviour: Managing risk, promoting recovery
- Supervising foster care
- Vulnerability, trauma and recovery
We have twenty eight further courses currently under development, so please do come back soon or sign up to our email alerts to make sure you receive information about new courses as they are available.
latest case studies
- ERW (Education through Regional Working) — Attachment Awareness in Schools project…
- The Grange School, Runcorn — Attachment Awareness in Schools: working quickly to introduce…
- Central Bedfordshire Council — E-learning use
- Milton Keynes — Learning and Development across Children's Social Care