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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Historic adoption: Experiences and reflections from adoptee Jan Shine, birth mother Jill Killington and researcher Dr Michael Lambert
Free Event
Date: October 16, 2023
This FREE to attend online event is open to all parties affected by adoption and permanency, including social workers and other professionals.
Jan, Jill and Michael, all involved in the demand for an apology and the subsequent JCHR enquiry will talk about their experiences and impact of adoption, the enquiry and responses to it.
Event start time 1.00pm | Event end time 2.00pm
(Zoom link will be sent to everyone who registers closer to the time of the event)
Availability: Spaces remaining.
Film launch: Messages from adopted people and birth parents
Free Event
Date: October 17, 2023
This FREE to attend online event is open to all parties affected by adoption and permanency, including social workers and other professionals.
Introduced by Mike Hancock, National Strategic Lead at PAC-UK, the official launch of two short and powerful films made by PAC-UK and commissioned by the National Adoption Strategy Team.
Trigger warning: The films contain references to mental health difficulties, suicidal thoughts, domestic violence and coercive control.
Event start time 1.00pm | Event end time 2.00pm
(Zoom link will be sent to everyone who registers closer to the time of the event)
Availability: Spaces remaining.
Moving forwards, not moving on: Birth parent perspectives on support
Free Event
Date: October 18, 2023
This FREE to attend online event is open to all parties affected by adoption and permanency, including social workers and other professionals.
Hosted by birth mother and expert by experience, Angela Frazer-Wicks MBE and birth mother and expert by experience, Kristy, who will be sharing how support has helped them move forward rather than moving on in relation to their children’s adoption.
Event start time 2.00pm | Event end time 3.15pm
(Zoom link will be sent to everyone who registers closer to the time of the event)
Availability: Spaces remaining.
Online CPV-NVR Parent Group 34 via Zoom: Weekly online sessions (Monday evenings) for adoptive parents and carers of children presenting challenging, destructive and violent behaviour
Price: £1949.00
Date: November 13, 2023
The 10 weekly online sessions for adoptive parents and carers will take place from 8.15pm to 9.45pm on Monday evenings via Zoom on the following dates:
November 13, 20 & 27
December 4 & 11
January 8, 15, 22 & 29
February 5
The group includes one follow-up group session on 26 February 2024 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.
Online CPV-NVR Parent Group 35 via Zoom: Weekly online sessions (Thursday afternoons) for adoptive parents and carers of children presenting challenging, destructive and violent behaviour
Price: £1949.00
Date: November 30, 2023
The 10 weekly online sessions for adoptive parents and carers will take place from 12.00pm to 1.30pm on Thursday afternoons via Zoom on the following dates:
November 30
December 7 & 14
January 11, 18 & 25
February 1, 8, 22 & 29
The group includes one follow-up group session on 14 March 2024 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
