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• About foster and kinship care
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• Carer training
  • Foster carer training
    • Foreword
    • Procedures and guidelines
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    • Pre-service training
    • Learning journal
    • Standard training
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    • Recognition of prior learning
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    • Forms and templates
  • Kinship carer training
• Support for carers
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  • Financial support
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• Rights and responsibilities
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  • Charter of rights of a child in care
  • United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Case planning for a child in care
  • Child Health Passport
  • Children and young people with disabilities
  • Education Support Plans
  • Family contact and reunification
  • Long-term guardianship
  • Placement Agreements
  • Transition from care
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
  • Child placement principle
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• Regulation of care
  • Screening and assessment
  • Matters of concern
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Forms and templates

• Application to conduct a Quality care: Foster care training (pre-service) (Word 48 KB)
  • Used to collect statistics on the training programs across the state and quality assurance in relation to the delivery of the new package by suitably qualified staff.
  • The key trainer must submit an application to the Policy and Program Division at least two weeks prior to delivering group training.
  • The application must list the training team members and relevant qualifications.
• Orientation record of attendance (Word 68 KB)
  • Used to check that persons listed in the application to conduct training form have completed an orientation to the new package.
• Orientation - statement of attendance certificate (PDF 252 KB)
  • After completion of the orientation workshop this is issued to participants and signed by the key trainer.
  • The names of participants in the training must be recorded on the orientation record of attendance and forwarded to the Policy and Program Division.
• Pre-service training - record of attendence and competency outcome (Word 50 KB)
  • Used to record that each pre-service training participant has completed all four of the training modules and has been assessed as competent in each module's learning outcomes.
  • The key trainer must ensure that this form is completed and the form is placed on the participant's file.
• Pre-service training - learning outcomes assessment (Word 122 KB)
  • Used to assess that each pre-service training participant is competent in the main learning outcomes for each of the modules.
  • The form is to be completed by the key trainer with assistance of the other training team members.
  • The information to complete the form will come from the worksheets completed by the participant, observations made during the training modules by the training team and an interview with the participant after completing the training modules.
  • The form must be kept on the participant's file.
• Pre-service training - statement of achievement certificate (PDF 272 KB)
  • The successful completion of this form triggers the issuing of the certificate to the participant by the key trainer.
• Standard training - learning outcomes assessment (Word 66 KB)
  • Used to assess that each standard training participant is competent in the main learning outcomes for each of the modules.
  • The form is to be completed by the key trainer with assistance of the other training team members.
  • The information to complete the form will come from the worksheets completed by the participant, observations made during the training modules by the training team and an interview with the participant after completing the training modules.
  • The form must be kept on the participant's file. The results of this form are to be recorded in the Individualised Learning Plan on the Foster Care Agreement.
• Standard training - statement of achievement certificate (PDF 283 KB)
  • The successful completion of this form triggers the issuing of the certificate to the participant by the key trainer.
• Application for external advanced training (Word 236 KB)
  • Used to apply for funding for particular carers to access external advanced training.

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Last updated

3 August 2007