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Decoding Emojis & Digital Clues: Supporting Teens in the Digital Age

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£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Decoding Emojis & Digital Clues: Supporting Teens in the Digital Age
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Understand how teens use emojis, slang and digital shorthand
  • Decode common and high-risk emoji meanings in context
  • Recognise digital signs of emotional distress or risk
  • Respond to concerning messages with empathy and confidence
  • Understand cultural and generational differences in emoji use
  • Strengthen communication and online safety awareness
  • Receive a downloadable certificate of completion
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Adultification Bias: Recognising and Challenging It

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£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Adultification Bias: Recognising and Challenging It
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Explain what adultification bias is and what the evidence shows
  • Recognise how it shows up in schools, policing, health, care and justice
  • Understand how it links to gender and to criminal and sexual exploitation
  • Spot language that makes children sound older or more to blame
  • Notice adultification in professionals and in yourself
  • Challenge it respectfully and protect a child's right to be a child
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Carer Resilience and Racial Trauma

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£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Carer Resilience and Racial Trauma
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Describe racial trauma and race-based stress, and how they can show in children
  • Recognise secondary trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout in yourself
  • Notice when a child's experiences trigger your own
  • Use co-regulation to help a child calm down
  • Build a practical self-care and support plan
  • Know when and where to ask for help, including urgent help
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Fostering in Colour

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£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Fostering in Colour
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Describe the gap between the foster carer workforce and the children in care, and where your practice sits
  • Apply insights from Black carers and care-experienced people to assessment, matching and support
  • Identify a child's cultural, identity and belonging needs and respond practically
  • Recognise bias and structural barriers in carer recruitment and assessment
  • Apply culturally matched care to the everyday: hair, skin, food, faith, language and community
  • Hold honest conversations about race, identity and cultural safety
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Supporting Identity Through Life Story Work

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£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Supporting Identity Through Life Story Work
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Explain what life story work is and who is responsible for it
  • Keep memories, photos and milestones safe every day
  • Respect a child's name, heritage, faith and racial identity
  • Support family links, including siblings and country of origin
  • Talk about a child's history honestly, in age-appropriate ways
  • Protect digital memories and explain a child's right to their records
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Talking About Race with the Child in Your Care

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£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Talking About Race with the Child in Your Care
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Explain why silence and 'colour-blindness' can harm children
  • Describe, in general terms, how racial identity develops
  • Use age-appropriate words with under-5s, primary children and teenagers
  • Prepare a child for racism without making them afraid
  • Respond to a racist incident: listen, believe, validate, act, record and tell
  • Build a child's positive racial identity, and keep learning yourself
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Understanding Transracial Matching in Foster Care

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£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Understanding Transracial Matching in Foster Care
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Explain what transracial matching is and why ethnicity is not the same as culture
  • Recognise differences within communities, including colourism, tribe and caste
  • Plan for a child's language, faith and everyday care needs
  • Understand how migration and displacement shape identity
  • Brief, support and review foster carers in transracial placements
  • Apply the law and guidance on a child's identity needs
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Writing with Care: Culturally Respectful Recording

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£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Writing with Care: Culturally Respectful Recording
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Explain who reads children's records, including care leavers years later
  • Separate fact, opinion and third-party information in your writing
  • Recognise loaded language and how bias can shape what is written about Black children
  • Record culture and identity positively, specifically and in the child's own words
  • Apply the basics of UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and confidentiality
  • Rewrite a record so it is factual, fair and respectful
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Browse by topicPopular conversationsWhere would you like to start?Pick a theme that matters to you and go straight to the courses that explore it.Myth busterChallenge assumptions and build more confident, informed care practice.Explore courses →BelongingExplore what helps children experience identity, connection and emotional safety.Explore courses →Black historyMove beyond limited narratives and strengthen cultural knowledge and confidence.Start the course →Carer insightPractical learning shaped around the questions carers often wish they had asked sooner.Explore courses →Course bundlesLearn a whole topic for £79Themed bundles group related courses together, with 12 months’ access and a certificate for every course.5 courses · £79Safeguarding and Online SafetyKeep children safe online and offline, from county lines to hidden apps and online racism.View bundle →5 courses · £79Carer EssentialsIdentity, resilience, school, transitions and professional meetings: the everyday essentials.View bundle →5 courses · £79Heritage and CultureHistory, food, faith, music, language and role models that help children feel proud of who they are.View bundle →5 courses · £79Leadership and AccreditationRecruitment, matching, complaints and investigations for managers building services where every child belongs.View bundle →3 courses · FreeFree coursesStart at no cost with Black history, belonging in fostering and talking about race.Start free →5 courses · £79Training your staffCultural competency, bias, adultification, strength-based practice and Islamophobia for your whole team.View bundle →View all bundlesBrowse by topicExplore every subjectFind courses by the area of practice that matters most to you.

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Writing with Care: Culturally Respectful Recording

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BFCA Tutor

£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Writing with Care: Culturally Respectful Recording
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Explain who reads children's records, including care leavers years later
  • Separate fact, opinion and third-party information in your writing
  • Recognise loaded language and how bias can shape what is written about Black children
  • Record culture and identity positively, specifically and in the child's own words
  • Apply the basics of UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and confidentiality
  • Rewrite a record so it is factual, fair and respectful
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Why Black History Is More Than Slavery

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BFCA Tutor

Free

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Why Black History Is More Than Slavery
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Explain why a slavery-only story of Black history can harm a child's identity
  • Describe achievements of African civilisations, from Kush and Aksum to Mali and Asante
  • Share Caribbean histories of resistance, and talk about enslavement honestly and at the right age
  • Outline Black British history from Roman times to Windrush and the fight for equal rights
  • Bring roots and culture into everyday life through talk, books, food, language and community
  • Explain the difference between Black History Month and everyday Black history
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Understanding and Challenging Islamophobia

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£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Understanding and Challenging Islamophobia
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Explain what Islamophobia is and why its definition is debated in the UK
  • Recognise the diversity within Muslim communities and avoid assumptions
  • Understand the impact of anti-Muslim hatred on children in care
  • Support a child's faith in practice, in line with the Children Act 1989
  • Respond to incidents at school and online, and report hate crime
  • Describe Prevent accurately, without treating faith as a warning sign
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Understanding and Challenging Antisemitism

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BFCA Tutor

£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Understanding and Challenging Antisemitism
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Explain what antisemitism is, and how the main UK definitions describe it
  • Tell the difference between criticising a government and targeting Jewish people
  • Describe how old antisemitic myths still shape hatred today
  • Recognise antisemitism in person, online and in conspiracy theories
  • Support a Jewish child's identity, faith and culture, whatever their background
  • Respond to incidents and report them to the police and CST
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Standards of Care Investigations

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BFCA Tutor

£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Standards of Care Investigations
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Tell a standards of care concern apart from an allegation that meets the LADO threshold
  • Explain what the Fostering National Minimum Standards and Working Together expect
  • Plan an enquiry that is fair, open and proportionate
  • Recognise where racial and cultural bias can shape a concern, and check for it
  • Support the foster carer, their household and the child throughout
  • Record clearly, reach a fair outcome and turn the concern into learning
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Sounds from the Diaspora

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BFCA Tutor

£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Sounds from the Diaspora
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Explain how music carries history, identity and belonging
  • Describe the roots of reggae, and where ska and rocksteady fit
  • Recognise key Caribbean and British genres, from lovers rock to grime
  • Tell Afrobeat and Afrobeats apart, and place hip hop and R&B in the diaspora story
  • Discuss drill, grime and crime in a balanced, non-stereotyping way
  • Use music to build connection, while checking what is age-appropriate
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Preparing for Professional Meetings

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BFCA Tutor

£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Preparing for Professional Meetings
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Describe the main meetings about a child in your care, and your part in each
  • Explain what the IRO does and what the law says about child in care reviews
  • Prepare for PEP meetings, placement planning meetings and child protection meetings
  • Take part with confidence in your annual review and at fostering panel
  • Raise a child's cultural and identity needs and bring their voice into the room
  • Speak up when you feel unheard, bring a supporter, and follow up in writing
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Jamaican Patois and Caribbean Dialects

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BFCA Tutor

£25

Last updated Sat, 26-Sep-2026

Jamaican Patois and Caribbean Dialects
Scorm course English
Outcomes:
  • Explain what Jamaican Patois is, and why it is a language, not 'broken English'
  • Describe the creole continuum and how speakers move along it
  • Recognise other Caribbean languages, including Bajan, Kwéyòl, Haitian Creole and Papiamento
  • Explain how Caribbean languages shaped Multicultural London English
  • Understand code-switching, identity and the harm of 'correcting' children
  • Use everyday words respectfully and support children at home and at school
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