Training & Workshops
Our Practice Programme delivers practice workshops, evidence seminars, bespoke training sessions, and conferences on cutting-edge topics, and caters to adoption professionals in all types of agencies and organisations.
Download the Practice Programme 2025-26 bookletTransracial Adoptions: Latest Practice in Assessments, Matching and Placements
Expert-led training co-delivered with Jan Way MBE and Lorna Ramsay from CoramIAC
Assessing yourself: The Role of the Social Worker in undertaking Equitable Assessments
Practice session co-delivered with Satwinder Sandhu, the CEO of CVAA
Adoption Assessments of Second-time Adopters: Considering Best Practice
Practice webinar co-delivered with Donna Mease - Team Manager Adoption Support at ARC and Ayesha Foster - Adoption & Permanence Manager at ARC
Non-violent Resistance (NVR) for Professionals: Supporting Adoptive Parents to support their Children
Expert-led training session co-delivered by Joanna Parker, Integrative Arts Psychotherapist MA UKCP Regd Clinical Supervisor, Trainer and Consultant
Adoption Services and Ofsted, Inspections of Voluntary Adoption Agencies (VAA’s) and Recent Developments
Expert-led practice session delivered by OFSTED Inspector - Tracey Coglan Greig - Senior Officer for Adoption and Fostering.
Adoption Services and Ofsted, Inspections of Regional Adoption Agencies (RAA’s) and Local Authorities (LA’s) and Recent Developments
Expert-led practice session delivered by OFSTED Inspector - Tracey Coglan Greig - Senior Officer for Adoption and Fostering.
Sibling Placements
Practice Session: Co-delivered by Leigh Smith from Adoption Focus and Leonie Hegedus from Yorkshire Adoption
Working with Traumatised Adopted Children and Adults and Calming the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) (Repeat Session due to High Demand)
Practice Workshop led by Jay Vaughan, CEO of Family Futures - Working with Traumatised Adopted Children
Supporting the Traumatised Adopter: Primary Trauma from the Challenges of parenting their Child
Expert-led training session co-delivered with Fi Newood, Psychotherapist and a Fostering and Adoption Specialist
Using Mentalization to Support with Adoption Assessments
Practice Workshop co-delivered with Dr Polly Cowan and Dr Alice Loving
Awareness of Trauma Experienced by LGBT+ Parents/Carers
Expert-led training session led by Matt Taylor-Roberts Founder and Managing Director of Proud 2 b Parents
Uncovering the legacy of Black British Social Workers: Between the personal, the professional and the political
Evidence based seminar co-delivered with Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Kusha Anand from Coventry University
The Longer View: Intergenerational Dynamics and support needs in analysis of life stories of adopters (now grandparents) and adoptees (now parents).
Expert-led training session delivered by Dr Julia Rimmer (from research led by Prof. Elsbeth Neil, with Dr. Irina Sirbu and intern Emma Speer)
Individualised Recruitment and Therapeutic Placement Strategy for Children waiting the longest
Practice webinar co-delivered with Senior Adoption Practitioners at St David's Adoption Service and Cardiff University
How to be a Good Intermediary: Advice and Guidance for Intermediary Support
Expert-Led Session delivered by Mike Hancock and Emma Crowther-Duncan from PAC-UK