• Skip to content
  • Skip to navigation
Coventry City Council home page Print Fallback Logo
  • My Account
  • Menu
  • Search
  • Adult social care and health
  • Births, deaths and ceremonies
  • Business and licensing
  • Careers and jobs
  • Children and families
  • Community, leisure and culture
  • Council and democracy
  • Council Tax, housing and benefits
  • Environment and waste
  • Planning and development
  • Parking, travel and streets
  • Schools, libraries and learning
  • Sign up for our News emails
  • A to Z of services
  • Pay for it
  • Apply for it
  • Tell us
  • Book it

Mandatory courses

  1. Home
  2. Children and families
  3. Fostering
  4. Foster carers
  5. Learning and development for foster carers
  6. Foster carer courses
  7. Mandatory courses

The national minimum standards for Foster Care set out the training that it is required for all Foster Carers to complete. This is what we refer to as Mandatory Training. It is required that each Foster Carer covers the subject areas listed below either through face to face training or via e-learning. Some Foster Carers may have prior learning which they believe covers the subject area which they should discuss with their Supervising Social Worker. Once the Mandatory Training has been completed it needs to be refreshed at least every 3 years.

If you have any questions, please refer to your Supervising Social Worker for advice.

  • Core Mandatory Refresher for Foster Carers
  • Equality and Diversity E-Learning
  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
  • First Aid for Foster Carers
  • Intro to Safer Caring and Health and Safety
  • Reporting and Recording for Foster Carers
  • Safeguarding Awareness for Foster Care
  • Supporting Education of Children in Care WMVS
  • Therapeutic Parenting and Behaviour Management
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn
  • X (formerly Twitter)

2025 © Coventry City Council

  • Sign up for our News emails
  • Webpage feedback
  • Accessibility support
  • Accessibility
  • Cookies
  • Terms and conditions
  • Contact
  • Privacy notice
Designed and Powered by Jadu.