Sessions Four and Five Area

Session Four: Diversity, identity and experience of being fostered

Aims:

• Explore some ideas about difference, discrimination and equality in fostering children
• Appreciate the need to act as an advocate on behalf of children and young people who may experience disadvantage as a result of unfair discrimination
• Look at what makes for a secure sense of identity and ways of nurturing the heritage and personal identity of children and young people
• Explore foster care from the point of view of a fostered young person

Session Five: Safer Caring

Aims:

• Discuss the nature and consequences of abuse, how it affects children
• Think about how carers can respond to the needs of children who have been abused
• Consider what to do if a child talks about their abuse
• Consider risk and safer caring for families who foster