Foster Care Training
You’ll receive extensive training, tailored to your foster care situation
Lika is rated Outstanding by Ofsted
Foster Care Training
You’ll receive extensive training, tailored to your foster care situation
Specialist on-demand foster care training for foster carers and social care professionals.

Lika is a CPD Member
At Lika, we believe in providing carers with the resources they need to create transformational changes in the lives of young people.
We train all our foster carers to ensure they have the skills they need to do good work for young people in need, and over the years we’ve developed excellent training programs tailored specifically to the needs of foster carers, based on the principles of systemic family therapy.
Now, that training is available to anyone interested in fostering or social care, even if you’re not a Lika carer, because we believe every carer should have access to expert training.
Please get in touch to talk about your needs by emailing training@likafamilyfostering.co.uk or call 020 3370 0987.
“Training is a significant strength of the fostering agency. Leaders and managers have developed an extensive programme which reflects the agency’s systemic and therapeutic model of care.” – Ofsted 2026

BEGINNER
PRICE: £35
Understanding and Applying the PACE Model in Therapeutic Parenting
Learn to apply the PACE model – Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy – to support traumatised children…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: £35
Understanding Trauma, the Brain, and Behaviour in Children
Build knowledge of how trauma impacts the brain and behaviour, and develop trauma-informed approaches to better support children and young people…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: £35
Compassion Fatique in Foster Care
Online training exploring compassion fatigue in fostering and trauma-informed practice. Learn to recognise signs, manage secondary trauma, and build compassion satisfaction to support sustainable, reflective caregiving…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: £35
Managing Endings in Foster Care
This CPD certified, self-directed course, is for foster carers, social workers, and professionals supporting children and young people…

BEGINNER
PRICE: FREE
Endings in Foster Care – Top Tips
This course aims to bring a better understanding around placement endings in foster care. It explores the different ways they occur…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: £30
Therapeutic Parenting Ideas for Managing Behaviour
There are many approaches and strategies that Foster Carers use when responding to challenging behaviour but some work better than others..

BEGINNER
PRICE: FREE
Empowering Language in Foster Care
This course offers a brief introduction to some pivotal systemic therapy approaches, focusing on language, meaning, and relational dynamics within foster care and how these can be used to create change for foster children…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: FREE
Childhood Trauma, Brain Development & Recovery
Promote resilience in children who have experienced trauma. Learn about brain plasticity, building trust, understanding behaviour…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: FREE
Attachment, Trauma & Brain Development
This course will help you understand how a child’s attachment style and experiences of trauma can impact behaviour…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: £20
Structural Family Therapy Ideas & Fostering
Discover how family structures can affect the way children interact in their foster home…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Relational Risk Taking
Relational Risk Taking is a natural position that people take when they want to create better relationships…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Family Scripts and Fostering
Learn about Family Scripts theory and how it can help to foster healthier relationships and communication with foster children…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Introduction to Narrative Therapy in Fostering
This course helps carers develop their own skill base to enhance relationships with children using narrative therapy…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Memory Box
This course helps carers support youth in identifying positive experiences and memories through memory boxes..

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
The Social GRACES and Reflexivity in Fostering
This training examines elements of identity that might impact our lives and behaviours in the fostering world…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Introduction to Systemic Family Therapy
This day will help you understand the core concepts. You do not need to have completed a therapy course…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Child Development and Attachment
This course is a comprehensive guide to understanding how experiences of neglect and abuse impact a child’s development…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Family Time and Contact
This training focuses on the benefits of family time and contact in fostering…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Health and Safety
Young children are unable to assess risks properly; it’s vital that we keep them safe and teach them safety in the home…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
The Fostering Task
This training will build on information learnt in the Skills to Foster training course…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Therapeutic Letters – Narrative Therapy
This training will support your development in writing a letter that is therapeutically minded…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Solution Focused Therapy and Fostering
This training enhances skills and offers new tools for those who naturally use this the SFTB approach…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Curiosity, Hypothesising & Circularity in Fostering
This training teaches an effective technique that promotes a non-blaming method to help understand behaviours of young people…

BEGINNER
PRICE: £25
Eating and Food Issues
This training day provides insight into the impact of early experiences on a child’s relationship with food…

BEGINNER
PRICE: FREE
Attachment, Trauma & Challenging Behaviour
This one-hour training session is a first step to fully understanding the impact a child’s early life experiences have on them as a person…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Co-ordinated Management of Meaning in Fostering
This specialist communication course introduces carers to the very helpful and practical models CMM offers…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: FREE
Attachment, Trauma & Brain Development
This course will help you understand how a child’s attachment style and experiences of trauma can impact behaviour…

BEGINNER
PRICE: £35
Understanding and Applying the PACE Model in Therapeutic Parenting
Learn to apply the PACE model – Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy – to support traumatised children…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: £35
Understanding Trauma, the Brain, and Behaviour in Children
Build knowledge of how trauma impacts the brain and behaviour, and develop trauma-informed approaches to better support children and young people…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: £35
Compassion Fatique in Foster Care
Online training exploring compassion fatigue in fostering and trauma-informed practice. Learn to recognise signs, manage secondary trauma, and build compassion satisfaction to support sustainable, reflective caregiving…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: £35
Managing Endings in Foster Care
This CPD certified, self-directed course, is for foster carers, social workers, and professionals supporting children and young people…

BEGINNER
PRICE: FREE
Endings in Foster Care – Top Tips
This course aims to bring a better understanding around placement endings in foster care. It explores the different ways they occur…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: £30
Therapeutic Parenting Ideas for Managing Behaviour
There are many approaches and strategies that Foster Carers use when responding to challenging behaviour but some work better than others..

BEGINNER
PRICE: FREE
Empowering Language in Foster Care
This course offers a brief introduction to some pivotal systemic therapy approaches, focusing on language, meaning, and relational dynamics within foster care and how these can be used to create change for foster children…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: FREE
Childhood Trauma, Brain Development & Recovery
Promote resilience in children who have experienced trauma. Learn about brain plasticity, building trust, understanding behaviour…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: FREE
Attachment, Trauma & Brain Development
This course will help you understand how a child’s attachment style and experiences of trauma can impact behaviour…

BEGINNER
PRICE: £20
Structural Family Therapy Ideas & Fostering
Discover how family structures can affect the way children interact in their foster home…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Relational Risk Taking
Relational Risk Taking is a natural position that people take when they want to create better relationships…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Family Scripts and Fostering
Learn about Family Scripts theory and how it can help to foster healthier relationships and communication with foster children…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Introduction to Narrative Therapy in Fostering
This course helps carers develop their own skill base to enhance relationships with children using narrative therapy…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Memory Box
This course helps carers support youth in identifying positive experiences and memories through memory boxes..

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
The Social GRACES and Reflexivity in Fostering
This training examines elements of identity that might impact our lives and behaviours in the fostering world…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Introduction to Systemic Family Therapy
This day will help you understand the core concepts. You do not need to have completed a therapy course…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Child Development and Attachment
This course is a comprehensive guide to understanding how experiences of neglect and abuse impact a child’s development…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Family Time and Contact
This training focuses on the benefits of family time and contact in fostering…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Health and Safety
Young children are unable to assess risks properly; it’s vital that we keep them safe and teach them safety in the home…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
The Fostering Task
This training will build on information learnt in the Skills to Foster training course…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Therapeutic Letters – Narrative Therapy
This training will support your development in writing a letter that is therapeutically minded…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Solution Focused Therapy and Fostering
This training enhances skills and offers new tools for those who naturally use this the SFTB approach…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Curiosity, Hypothesising & Circularity in Fostering
This training teaches an effective technique that promotes a non-blaming method to help understand behaviours of young people…

BEGINNER
PRICE: £25
Eating and Food Issues
This training day provides insight into the impact of early experiences on a child’s relationship with food…

BEGINNER
PRICE: FREE
Attachment, Trauma & Challenging Behaviour
This one-hour training session is a first step to fully understanding the impact a child’s early life experiences have on them as a person…

PRE-ORDER
PRICE: £25
Co-ordinated Management of Meaning in Fostering
This specialist communication course introduces carers to the very helpful and practical models CMM offers…

INTERMEDIATE
PRICE: FREE
Attachment, Trauma & Brain Development
This course will help you understand how a child’s attachment style and experiences of trauma can impact behaviour…
Lika offers both online and in-person specialist training for foster carers and social care professionals.
At Lika, our foster carers receive the skills and training needed for the specific challenges of their care role.
As a result, we’ve developed a wide variety of training courses to help carers feel stronger and more resilient in helping young people recover from trauma. Our training and resources are based in the systemic family therapy approach to foster caring.
This training is now available to all.
To view a list of the specialist training available, please take a look at our training brochure. All the topics listed are available for both in-person and virtual training, which you can book by emailing your topic of interest directly to training@likafamilyfostering.co.uk or call on 020 3370 0987.
We currently have a waiting list for many courses, but new dates are allocated regularly. If you’ve expressed an interest in a course, we will send you dates as soon as they become available.
If you’d like us to organise training for your group or organisation, we are happy to help. Please get in touch to talk about your needs.
A book to help foster kids and carers better understand trauma
When the wobbly feelings start, Annie can’t stop stomping, stamping and slamming doors. Can her magical best friend help Annie get her sparkle back?


Annie Sparkle’s Incredible Butterfly Day is a fun and engaging story to help young people make sense of the emotional effects of trauma, and to empower their responses to it.
The book is underpinned by research into childhood trauma and teaches techniques to aid recovery in an engaging way.
Comes with a FREE special explanatory guide for foster carers!

