Training for social care, fostering and adoption
For fostering and adoption services, local authority children's services, kinship and special guardianship teams, and residential care.
The lead trainer on most of these courses is a Band 6 Looked After Children Practitioner in NHS CAMHS with a live caseload of placement breakdown and blocked care. She is an NMC Practice Supervisor and Practice Assessor, attends child protection conferences, writes court reports and sits on multi-agency exploitation and Channel panels.
That matters here more than anywhere else in the catalogue. Carers can tell within ten minutes whether the person at the front has sat in a placement stability meeting, and the day does not recover if the answer is no.
Courses for social care and fostering
Full catalogueAttachment and Developmental Trauma
Attachment as a survival strategy rather than a behaviour problem, and what developmental trauma does to a developing brain. Built for staff who see the same children every day.
Emotionally Based School Avoidance
EBSA separated from truancy and from withheld attendance, why avoidance grows, and how to build a graduated return plan that survives a bad week.
Safeguarding Children: Group B (Level 2), Wales
The Group B day for people who work directly with children in registered childcare in Wales. Built to the Wales Safeguarding Procedures, not adapted from an English course.
Safeguarding Children: Group B (Level 2), England
The English edition of the Level 2 day, built on Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026 and the EYFS safeguarding and welfare requirements in force from 1 September 2026.
Trauma Informed Practice
Built so the whole workforce can sit in the same room, and deliberately as useful to a receptionist as to a practitioner. Delegates leave with a structured self-audit of their own service.
Understanding Blocked Care
The carers' day. Blocked care separated from burnout and from depression, the five parental systems, and how to ask for support in wording that brings help rather than scrutiny.
Blocked Care for supporting staff
For supervising social workers, support workers, managers and IROs. How to see blocked care when nobody says it, and hear a disclosure without escalating it.
Trauma or Neurodiversity?
Two trainers, one from each specialism, because a single trainer reliably favours the side they trained in. Both wrong turns are covered at the same weight, including the one practitioners cause.
Self-harm and Suicide: responding safely, Wales
Most training on this subject teaches people to predict. The national guideline says in four separate recommendations not to, and this day replaces prediction with response.
Self-harm and Suicide: responding safely, England
Most training on this subject teaches people to predict. The national guideline says in four separate recommendations not to, and this day replaces prediction with response.
Carers and the people who supervise them are two bookings
A foster carer will not say they have stopped feeling anything for a child in front of the person who writes their annual review. Put both audiences in one room and you disable them both, so Blip runs the blocked care day for carers and a separate half day for supervising social workers, support workers, team managers and IROs.
Booked together we quote for the pair, and services that take both get a consistent vocabulary on either side of the table, which is where most of the value sits. The half day teaches staff to hear a disclosure without escalating it, and it states in writing, in the deck and in the handbook, that no safeguarding, recording or placement threshold has moved.
Blip's confidentiality position on the carers' day does not vary: attendance figures and anonymous group evaluation come back to the commissioner, and nothing an individual carer says in the room does. It is stated to delegates at the start, and it is the reason the day works.
Wales and England are not the same course
Safeguarding is delivered as two editions, because the Wales Safeguarding Procedures use different words, a different reporting route and a fifth category of abuse. Blip's Welsh language position is stated plainly on every quote: the current trainers deliver in English, and where Welsh medium delivery is required we arrange a Welsh speaking associate trainer or a qualified interpreter at no additional cost to the participant.
Free, one page
EBSA: the first fortnight
A one-page checklist for the two weeks after a child stops making it through the school gate, when what the adults do next decides how long this lasts.
- What to do in the first 48 hours, and the three things that make it worse
- The questions that find the actual trigger, and the ones that close a child down
- A simple return plan template, with the conditions that make it hold
Common questions
Should carers and supervising social workers attend together?
No, and Blip runs them as two separate bookings for that reason. A foster carer will not say they have stopped feeling anything for a child in front of the person who writes their annual review. Put both audiences in one room and you disable them both, so there is a full day on blocked care for carers and a separate half day for supervising social workers, support workers, team managers and IROs. Booked together we quote for the pair.
What gets reported back to the commissioner?
Attendance figures and anonymous group evaluation come back to the commissioner. Nothing an individual carer says in the room does. That position does not vary, it is stated to delegates at the start of the day, and it is the reason the day works.
Is the safeguarding course different for Wales and England?
Yes, and they are two separate courses rather than one course with a note. The Wales Safeguarding Procedures use different words, a different reporting route and a fifth category of abuse. Book the edition that matches where your staff practise.
Can training be delivered in Welsh?
The current trainers deliver in English. Where Welsh medium delivery is required, Blip arranges a Welsh speaking associate trainer or a qualified interpreter at no additional cost to the participant. This is stated plainly on every quote rather than raised afterwards.
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