Training & Skills

A free introduction to Core Skills for Children's Work.

A practical and creative course to provide training for children's workers through six foundational modules.

A practical and creative course to provide training for children's workers through six foundational modules.

Building on the foundational teaching in Core Skills for Children's Work, this complementary resources offers six key modules of extended training for children's workers and their teams of adult helpers and young leaders.

Building on the foundational teaching in Core Skills for Children's Work, this complementary resources offers six key modules of extended training for children's workers and their teams of adult helpers and young leaders.

A Core Skills module to download - this Core Skills module aims to provide a basic introduction to working with children in a church context

A Core Skills module to download - this Core Skills module aims to enable participants to identify and reflect on their current skills and encourage them to actively seek support for themselves in their work with children

A Core Skills module to download - this Core Skills module aims to develop an understanding of how children learn and the skills required to deliver a programme relevant to their need

A Core Skills module to download - this Core Skills module aims to explore the pastoral issues involved in working with children and to reflect on practice

A Core Skills module to download - this module aims to reflect on and extend understanding of how children develop, and to apply this understanding to interaction with children.

A Core Skills module to download - this Core Skills module aims to explore the meaning of spirituality and its relationship with faith as expressed in the Bible

A Core Skills module to download - this Core Skills module aims to explore ways of working among children in a variety of contexts, including local, national and global

A Core Skills module to download and use. This practical and creative module enables children's workers to support children through the different transitional experiences in their journey from infancy to early adolescence.

A Core Skills module to download and use. This module is designed to develop a knowledge and understanding of children with dissabilities and explore ways to make all activities accessible, inclusive and welcoming.

A Core Skills module to download and use. This module explores issues around challenging behaviour and to identify mechanisms for dealing with challenging behaviour.

A Core Skills module to download and use. This module explore the ways that awareness of global issues and the international dimension to the Christian faith can enrich our work with children.

A Core Skills module to download and use. This module aims to explore the role of advocacy in children's work; to explore the balance between advocating for the child and enabling the child's own voice to be heard; to question the role of the Children's Advocate.

A Core Skills module to download and use. This module explores the theme of Young Leaders in Children's work.

Understanding the five essential elements of child development to enable love to grow.

Growing Young Leaders is a book designed to help you mentor teenagers on the path to leadership. It defines mentoring, analyses the necessary skills and attributes of a mentor today, encourages good practice, considers the safeguards needed to meet child protection guidelines, and above all considers how to help young people identify their gifts and grow as Christian disciples.

Growing Leaders - Youth Edition. This book by Ruth Hassall explores what it means to be a young Christian leader in all kinds of settings - at church, school or college, on the sports field, even at home. It also unpacks wisdom and encouragement from 1 and 2 Timothy, two New Testament letters written by an older leader to a younger friend.

The book for everybody scared by the thought of 'all-age'. This book by Lucy Moore is for those who sense that worshipping God together is probably a good thing, but are nervous of trying to lead their church towards that vision. It acknowledges that we don't live in a perfect world - or church - and that no-one has all the answers. It also acknowledges that you are the expert for the ways in which your church can best worship God, and helps you start to find those ways and adapt them for your local setting.