Workshops for Adoptive Parents and other Permanent Carers
This page lists our workshops for adoptive parents, special guardians, long term foster carers and other permanent carers. Click on the course title or register tab to view detailed information. You can register via our electronic booking form and pay online. We are unable to take bookings or payments over the phone.
Please note that there are further seminars open to adoptive parents and other permanent carers, as well as to social workers and other professionals under Public Seminars.
If you would like to go onto a waiting list for an event that is fully booked please email training@pac-uk.org. You will be contacted if a place becomes available and be sent a notification email when we run the event again.
Once you have submitted your registration form you will be taken to a payments option page where you can either pay via debit/credit card for online payments or choose an offline payment option for purchase order payments and cheques. You can submit your registration form and pay via debit/credit card at a later date by clicking here.
Please note, for online payments your booking is not complete until payment is received. We strongly advise you to make payment at the time of submitting your registration form to avoid disappointment as the majority of our courses do sell out.
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PAC-UK 'BIG CONSULT 2022' Launch via Zoom
Free Event
Date: April 20, 2023
This FREE to attend event is open to all parties affected by adoption and permanency, including social workers and other professionals.
This major consultation by PAC-UK commissioned by the National Adoption Strategy Team (RAA programme funded by the DfE), surveyed people adopted since the 1950s and birth parents whose children have been adopted since 1990, the “modern” adoption period.
Over 600 adoptees and birth parents shared their experience and views on a range of adoption issues and how these have changed over time, including: contact, reunion, court, contemporary services, mental health, identity and more.
The event will start with an introduction from Sarah Johal MBE, National Adoption Strategic Lead. Mike Hancock, National Strategic Lead for PAC-UK, accompanied by some experts by experience, will present the key findings and ask where these leave contemporary discussions around contact, adoption services, identity and the future of adoption.
Event start time 12.00noon | Event end time 1.00pm (a Zoom link will be sent to all attendees once registration is completed)
Availability: Spaces remaining.
Online CPV-NVR Parent Group 30 via Zoom: Weekly online sessions (Tuesday evenings) for adoptive parents and carers of children presenting challenging, destructive and violent behaviour
Price: £2910.00
Date: April 25, 2023
The 10 weekly online sessions for adoptive parents and carers will take place from 8.15pm to 9.45pm on Tuesdays via Zoom on the following dates:
April 25
May 2, 9, 16 & 23
June 6, 13, 20 & 27
July 4
The group includes one follow-up group session on July 18 2023 plus one initial consultation meeting, one review meeting and one report per participant or couple.
We will be coordinating with the different half terms over the country and may adapt the above dates if needed.
Availability: 0
Online CPV-NVR Parent Group 31 via Zoom: Weekly online sessions (Wednesday mornings) for adoptive parents and carers of children presenting challenging, destructive and violent behaviour
Price: £1949.00
Date: April 26, 2023
The 10 weekly online sessions for adoptive parents and carers will take place from 10.00am to 11.30am on Wednesdays via Zoom on the following dates:
April 26
May 3, 10, 17 & 24
June 7, 14, 21 & 28
July 5
The group includes one follow-up group session on July 19 2023 plus one initial consultation meeting, one review meeting and one report per participant or couple.
We will be coordinating with the different half terms over the country and may adapt the above dates if needed.
Availability: Last few spaces only.
PAC-UK Training service user feedback
The parents thoroughly enjoyed the day and found it really helpful.Social worker
Brilliant and amazingly informative. I now have the confidence that the adoption is going to work. Prospective adopter
Excellent day. Really beneficial.Adoptive parent
Very impressed by the quality and the eloquence of the trainer. I feel very hopeful now. An excellent and informative day.Adoptive parent
Thank you. And thank goodness!Adoptive parent
That was a great training course today. Thank you! There was a lot of interaction between all the delegates.Adoptive parent
Just a brief note to say how much I enjoyed the training day. There was lots of opportunity for participation. We had a very nice, mixed group of people which helped a lot and Kim was excellent as she managed to mix audience participation and what she had to say, so well. I feel that I got a lot out of it.Adoptive parent
