Training for children's homes in England
Practical training for staff and managers in Ofsted-registered children's homes. Mapped to the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015, assessed in the home, and ready for your training matrix.
Find your training
Each pathway is the order we would train in, from first week to fully signed off.
Start with Manager Induction. Then Managing the Home by week 8 and Ready Every Day by week 12.
The Manager Programme
Ofsted counted 4,800 children's homes in England on 31 March 2026, up 20% in a year. Every new home needs a registered manager who can lead it safely from the first shift.
Source: Ofsted, Children's social care in England 2026.
In every pack
Book us to deliver it, or licence the pack and deliver it yourself. Either way you get the same six parts.
One idea per slide, plain English, real scenarios with invented initials.
A script for every slide: the minutes, what to say and the question to ask.
One task to a page, done about your own home.
A ten-question check, pass mark 8, and a different paper for a resit.
What a senior watches for, within four weeks, so learning shows on shift.
Who records what, by when, ready for your training matrix and Ofsted.
How it works
Tell us who needs what. We agree dates, venue or link, and send joining instructions.
In person across the North West, or live online. Your policies, your examples.
Knowledge check on the day, observed sign-off within four weeks, records ready for your matrix.
Courses
From a new starter's first safeguarding session to a manager's Reg 45 review.
New and current registered managers
Your first 90 days leading the home. A half-day workshop, then a 27-sheet workbooklet worked in your own home and signed off by your RI.
Managers, deputies and aspiring managers
Reg 44 and 45, notifications, inspection, enforcement and safer recruitment, including the 2026 changes.
All care staff
The Philomena Protocol, the first hour, and the return interview.
All care staff
Calm, connect and record: the rules, the skills and what happens after. No physical intervention is taught.
New residential care workers
Recognise, respond, record and refer, in line with Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026.
All staff using Lief Care
Click-routes for everyday Lief tasks, from daily logs to the training matrix. Independent training, not endorsed by Lief.
Free · 10 minutes
Ten honest questions about your home. You get a score, the gaps, and the courses that close them. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Free download
Every timescale a manager is held to, on one A4 page with the regulation behind each one.
Who builds it
Awais Hussain (CJ) is a Senior Team Leader and the Learning and Development lead in children's homes in Greater Manchester. He builds the training he wanted when he started: one idea per slide, real scenarios, and nothing a new starter cannot use on their next shift.
Questions
No, and we never claim it is. Every course is mapped to the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015 and current statutory guidance, which we re-check at source every month. Learning is assessed in the home: a knowledge check, then observed practice. You get a record of completion for your training matrix.
No. Physical intervention stays with your home's own certified provider. Our de-escalation module covers prevention, recording, debriefs and reducing restrictive practice.
In person across the North West from our Greater Manchester base, and live online across England. A licensed pack can be delivered by your own trainer anywhere.
The slides, a trainer guide with a script for every slide, a learner workbook, two knowledge-check papers (A for the session, B for a resit), an observed sign-off checklist, and a table showing how the training is recorded.
No. Most courses work with any recording system. Our Lief courses are independent training for homes that use Lief Care. They are not endorsed by Lief.
Tell us your homes, your team and what is due. We reply within two working days with dates and a quote.