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TSDS Workshops
Each year every fostering household has an Annual Foster Home Review. Your training and development are key areas of the review. The Fostering Independent Reviewing Officer (FIRO) will ask you about the training and development you have undertaken during the preceding year and how both you and your Supervising Social Worker think this has contributed to your fostering role.
Completion of the TSDS is mandatory for all foster carers. If you and your partner are both registered carers, then you both need to complete the TSDS separately although you can use the same evidence in your responses. For mainstream carers, completion of TSDS is also the ‘gateway’ to progression through the different levels of skills accreditation: you must complete your TSDS before you can progress to the next level.
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Understand your role as a Kinship Foster Carer
Course aim:
To establish a shared understanding of the role of a kinship foster carer and to introduce the Training, Support and Development Standards (TSDS) programme.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand your role as a kinship foster carer: Understand your own role and responsibilities in relation to your Fostering Service.
- Understand your role as a kinship foster carer: Understand the role of your Supervising Social Worker and child’s Social Worker.
- Understand your role as a kinship foster carer: Be able to work in partnership with staff from the other organisations that support you and the child or young person in your care.
- Understand your role as a kinship foster carer: Know how to contribute to planning for the child or young person including contributions to meetings and reviews.
- Policies, procedures: Know about relevant legislation, policies and procedures relating to kinship foster care, and where you can get further information.
- Develop yourself: Understand the purpose of your personal supervision and annual review and how to make the best use of it.
- Develop yourself: Know what support is available to you and the importance of asking for help and advice.
- Personal development: Be willing to take advantage of training and development opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills further. As appropriate to the child you are caring for.
Contributes to Training, Support and Development Standards:
- Standard 1 & 6