Caring for an unaccompanied asylum-seeking child

What you will learn

• The reasons a child might be unaccompanied and seeking asylum.
• How to overcome various challenges together, including language barriers and cultural differences.
• How to keep the child’s culture and customs alive, whilst also helping them understand UK culture and learn the language.
• Common mental health issues in asylum-seeking children.
• How to be aware of and deal with prejudice, and other challenges your foster child might face.
• How to apply for asylum in the UK and how to support the child through the process. Please note, this course is primarily designed for people who are thinking about fostering an unaccompanied asylum-seeking child in the future. If you are looking after or are soon to look after a UASC from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Albania, Sudan/South Sudan, Pakistan or Eritrea, we have courses on fostering children from these countries, which you will find more specific. They include some of the information that you will find here, but also provide insights into the particular situations in these countries, as well as lots of information that will help you make the foster child feel more at home.

How the course works

The course is broken into manageable online units and includes knowledge checks or quizzes where appropriate. Progress saves automatically, so learners can pause and return on any device.

A certificate is available when all required course elements are completed successfully.

Who it is for

Foster carers, support carers and fostering-service staff who need practical, up-to-date learning in this topic.