About Changefactor

Welcome to Changefactor, we provide training and development support for Foster Carers, Social Workers and other Health and Social Care Staff. With much energy and creativity we engage delegates to ensure that they commit to ongoing vocational/professional development in Health and Social Care, in order to ensure that children and families receive the highest standards of care and other services; promoting the overall wellbeing of children and families.

Please take a look at the list of courses we offer. If there is a course you require and it is not listed please contact us to discuss how we could provide a course specific to your requirements.

ABOUT US

What We Offer

We offer a wide range of custom made, cost effective training and other developmental services to Local Authorities, Independent Fostering Agencies and Individuals. Our courses are designed to meet National Standards, the new 2011 Fostering Services Regulations, Guidance, and National Minimum Standards, and the, Support and Development Standards for Foster Care. We lead in quality, ensuring measurable responses to learning needs, and provide solutions to organisational challenges.

Our client list and testimonials provide evidence of our success in our field.

CONTACT US

What We Offer

We offer a wide range of custom made, cost effective training and other developmental services to Local Authorities, Independent Fostering Agencies and Individuals. Our courses are designed to meet National Standards, the new 2011 Fostering Services Regulations, Guidance, and National Minimum Standards, and the, Support and Development Standards for Foster Care. We lead in quality, ensuring measurable responses to learning needs, and provide solutions to organisational challenges.

Our client list and testimonials provide evidence of our success in our field.

CONTACT US
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Some We Have Worked With

Next Step Fostering

Bexley

Merton Council

BME Forum

Croydon

Hounslow

Southwark

Lewisham

Redbridge

National Fostering Group

Ealing

Hackney

Barnardo's

Children's Trust

Lambeth

Croydon

Building Stronger Families

Quotes

“The first step is to measure whatever can be measured easily. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can’t easily be measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can’t be measured easily really isn’t important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can’t easily be measured really doesn’t”

Daniel Yankelovich

“Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts!”

Albert Einstein

Testimonials

Foster Carers Learning and Reflections from Compassion Fatigue Syndrome Training for Foster Carers
Foster Carers being vulnerable.

Foster Carers can experience Blocked care and overcome by pushing through with support. I made a point of being more aware and what my young person going through. So, I gave him a cuddle this week. Knowledge and awareness put me in a better place. CFS is one of the most difficult things to treat……

Foster Carers Learning and Reflections from Compassion Fatigue Syndrome Training for Foster Carers
A brilliant group of brave Foster Carers.

    CFS rewires the brain and how we think. We need to change the way we work to ensure our wellness.   It is not so easy to create that change. Respite needs to be built into/with children’s care plans. What is left for ourselves? We need to regularly take stock.

Reflections after a Training, Support and Development Standards for Foster Care Programme Development Workshop
Mangers, Supervisors and Social Workers from a local authority Fostering service.

    I like the fact that we should be starting from the assessment (Form F) phase and induction handover. ​I think it’s more of an opportunity for how we deliver the training…lots of new ideas. We can now go back and think about how we intend to deliver this programme. Every Child Matter exercise…