Five courses for Supported Lodgings Carers
We have generated an easy guide for Supported Lodgings (SL) carers to understand their pathway plan for Therapeutic and OFSTED required trainings. Below are five mandatory modules.
Safeguarding
- E-learning: PREVENT duty training (mandatory)
- Priority Training:
- Protecting Children and Young People
- Safer Caring
- Recommended Training:
- Understanding child exploitation, risk in the community including online harm
- Recognising the signs of gang related culture
- Parenting & safeguarding children and young people online
Health and Safety
- Priority Training: First Aid – Face-to-Face
- Recommended Training: Health and safety in the home
Supporting Young People
- E-learning: Preparing for independence
- Priority Training: Achieving health and wellbeing (currently being re-written, July 2025)
- Recommended Training: Trauma informed approaches to self-harm
Child Development & Psychologically Informed Practices
- E-learning: Child development (part 1)
- Priority Training: Anxiety and Trauma
- Child development (part 2) - 11 short videos via My Learning followed by Instructor Led Training (Atypical Child)
- Recommended training:
- Connection and loss
- Neuroscience (you have to complete Child Development modules before you are able to book this course)
- Neuropsychology of parenting traumatised children (you have to complete Neuroscience modules before you are able to book this course)
- Teens, trouble and trauma
- Reflective therapeutic parenting
Equality and Diversity
- Recommended Training: Equality and Diversity in Foster Care
Training programme in full
View all training dates available for the 2025/2026 financial year.
View the training programme in full, including descriptions of all courses and all training dates available for the 2025/2026 financial year.
View an accessible version of the training programme (PDF, 410 KB).
You can log into My Learning and book your training.
If you haven’t already done so, please ensure you are signed up to the curriculum relevant to your role. Read a guide on how to do this and how to book training (PDF, 308 KB).
Don’t forget, you must complete all training in the priority section of your curriculum before you will be able to book training in the recommended section. If recommended training is deemed essential for you to complete, your SSW should email ESCA@essex.gov.uk confirming the title of the course you should be booked on, dates of training and your full name and we can book you on.
Availability for all courses is limited, so book quickly to avoid disappointment!
How to book
All training should be booked through My Learning. Read a guide on how to do this (PDF, 308 KB).
If you need any help, please contact ESCA at ESCA@essex.gov.uk or by phone on 0333 013 8906. If you are unsure what training you should complete, please discuss this with your SSW.