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Foster care

• About foster and kinship care
  • What is foster care?
  • What is kinship care?
  • Who needs care?
  • Provisionally approved carers
  • Specialist foster care
  • Non family-based care
• Becoming a carer
  • Expression of interest
    • Register your interest
  • Questions to consider
  • Rewards and challenges
  • Steps to becoming a carer
• Blue cards for carers
  • Blue cards for existing carers and their adult household members
• Carer training
  • Foster carer training
    • Foreword
    • Procedures and guidelines
    • Frequently asked questions
    • Orientation
    • Learning outcomes
    • Pre-service training
    • Learning journal
    • Standard training
    • Advanced training
    • Recognition of prior learning
    • Acknowledgments
    • Forms and templates
  • Kinship carer training
• Children and young people
  • Transitioning from care
  • Info kit for children and young people in care
    • Family group meeting (FGM)
    • Case plan
    • Education support plan (ESP)
    • Child health passport (CHP)
    • Transition from care (TFC)
    • Matters of concern (MOC)
    • Complaints
  • Children and young people's participation strategy
• Support for carers
  • Carer handbook
  • Federal Government allowances and benefits
  • Foster and kinship care support line
  • Foster and Kinship Carer Card
    • Business Discount Directory
      • Tips on using the card
      • Nominate a business
    • Information for businesses
      • Business proposal application form
      • Terms and conditions
    • Frequently asked questions
  • Financial support
  • Support care
  • Support groups
• Rights and responsibilities
  • Standards of care
  • Statement of commitment
  • Charter of rights for 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
  • Recognised Entities
• Regulation of care
  • Screening and assessment
  • Matters of concern
  • Community Visitors
• Contacts
  • Community foster care agencies
  • Indigenous foster care agencies
  • Peak bodies and advocacy groups
  • Foster and Kinship Carer Card contacts
• Library

Pre-service training

Participants undertaking the pre-service modules in-group training are to be given copies of materials for each module, with the exception of the session plans.

• Where one-to-one delivery of all or part of the pre-service modules is necessary, participants can be given copies of all learning materials including session plans, content of overhead transparencies, handouts, worksheets, assessment forms and participant evaluation forms for each module.
• An overall outcome of competent/not competent must be recorded for each participant on the Pre-service training - record of attendance and competency outcome form (Word 50 KB).
• When competency is achieved in each of the training modules, participants will receive the Pre-service training - statement of achievement certificate (PDF 273 KB).

Foster carer applicants must achieve the pre-service learning outcomes as a prerequisite for initial approval as a foster carer.

Training modules

Pre-service training consists of four training modules. Each module includes a session plan, slides/overhead transparencies (OHTs), handouts and assessment documents.

Module 1: Context of foster care

• 1.1 Session plan (PDF 159 KB)
• 1.2 Slides/OHTs (PowerPoint 99 KB)
• 1.3 Handouts for participants (PDF 78 KB)
• 1.4 Assessment (PDF 365 KB) - includes personal reflections and child's questionnaire
• Download the complete module: 1. Context of foster care (Zip 376 KB).

Module 2: Understanding the past for a child or young person

• 2.1 Session plan (PDF 229 KB)
• 2.2 Slides/OHTs (PowerPoint 201 KB)
• 2.3 Handouts for participants (PDF 116 KB)
• 2.4 Assessment (PDF 424 KB) - includes personal reflections and worksheets.
• Download the complete module: 2. Understanding the past for a child or young person (Zip 467 KB).

Module 3: Early days in a placement

• 3.1 Session plan (PDF 186 KB)
• 3.2 Slides/OHTs (PowerPoint 189 KB)
• 3.3 Handouts for participants (PDF 73 KB)
• 3.4 Assessment (PDF 226 KB) - includes personal reflections and worksheets.
• Download the complete module: 3. Early days in a placement (Zip 406 KB).

Module 4: Quality care - working together

• 4.1 Session plan (PDF 182 KB)
• 4.2 Slides/OHTs (PowerPoint 218 KB)
• 4.3 Handouts for participants (PDF 112 KB)
• 4.4 Assessment (PDF 143 KB) - includes personal reflections and worksheets.
• 4.5 Participant evaluation form (PDF 53 KB)
• Download the complete module: 4. Quality care - working together (Zip 371 KB).

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Last updated

3 August 2007