The 11 weekly sessions (except school holidays) for adoptive parents and carers of Children and Young People presenting Challenging, Destructive and Violent Behaviour will take place from 10.00am to 11.30am on Wednesday mornings via Zoom on the following dates:

May 7, 14 & 21
June 4, 11, 18 & 25
July 2, 9, 16 & 30

In addition to the 11 group sessions and report, each participant or couple attending will have one-to-one meetings with group facilitators that the referring social worker can also attend (before the first group session and after the last group session).

PAC-UK are also developing a wider support offer for parents/carers who have completed PAC-UK CPV-NVR Parent Groups - we are pleased to include a complimentary 'Supporting the Supporters' workshop that family and friends of parents/carers who attend this group can access for free.

The 11 weekly sessions (except school holidays) for adoptive parents and carers of Children and Young People presenting Challenging, Destructive and Violent Behaviour will take place from 12.00pm to 1.30pm on Thursday afternoons via Zoom on the following dates:

May 8, 15 & 22
June 5, 12, 19 & 26
July 3, 10, 17 & 31

In addition to the 11 group sessions and report, each participant or couple attending will have one-to-one meetings with group facilitators that the referring social worker can also attend (before the first group session and after the last group session).

PAC-UK are also developing a wider support offer for parents/carers who have completed PAC-UK CPV-NVR Parent Groups - we are pleased to include a complimentary 'Supporting the Supporters' workshop that family and friends of parents/carers who attend this group can access for free.

We all agree that adopted and Looked After children need ‘therapeutic’ parents and carers but what does that actually mean? This training day will explore some of the emotional components of therapeutic parenting, and how we might assess whether prospective adopters and carers ‘have what it takes’.

The day will particularly focus on assessing adults’ attachment styles and the implications of problematic adult attachment issues when it comes to parenting traumatised children. It is NOT aimed at assessing readiness to adopt following loss, infertility, bereavement, etc. specifically, but rather at how social workers can become more able to assess the emotional capacity of prospective carers, and how this can be evidenced in Prospective Adopters Reports.

Date: Wednesday 4 June | Time: 10.00am to 4.30pm| Venue: Family Action Head Office, London N1 7GR (fully accessible with lift and wheelchair access ramp)