PAC-UK Workshops for professionals

Training and events for professionals working with families through their adoption or special guardianship journey.

We offer comprehensive training & events focusing on adoption and permanent placement specific topics for professionals working with families through their adoption or special guardianship journey. If we have any available events, they will be listed below where you can click on the course title or register tab to view detailed information. You can then register via our electronic booking form and pay online. We are unable to take bookings or payments over the phone.

Please note that there are further seminars open to social workers and other professionals, as well as to adoptive parents and other permanent carers under public seminars.

If you would like to go onto a waiting list for an event that is fully booked please email [email protected]. You will be contacted if a place becomes available and will be sent a notification email when we run the event again.

Once you have submitted your registration form you will be taken to a payments option page where you can either pay via debit/credit card for online payments or choose an offline payment option for purchase order payments and cheques.

Please note, for online payments your booking is not complete until payment is received. We strongly advise you to make payment at the time of submitting your registration form to avoid disappointment as the majority of our courses do sell out.

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Upcoming training

Working with adopted adults in counselling practice – Birmingham, 6 & 7 October 2026

Gain the confidence and skills to provide meaningful therapeutic support to adopted adults through this new two-day in-person training.

Note: This training is for counsellors, mental health and adoption professionals.

The lived experience of adoption is often complex, layered, and deeply personal. This unique and comprehensive two-day training course – delivered by PAC-UK facilitators with lived experience – offers counsellors and mental health professionals a deeper understanding of adoption-related trauma and how to respond to it in therapeutic settings.

Price: £275 plus VAT (£330 incl. VAT)

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Working with adopted adults in counselling practice – London, 24 & 25 November 2026

Gain the confidence and skills to provide meaningful therapeutic support to adopted adults through this new two-day in-person training.

Note: This training is for counsellors, mental health and adoption professionals.

The lived experience of adoption is often complex, layered, and deeply personal. This unique and comprehensive two-day training course – delivered by PAC-UK facilitators with lived experience – offers counsellors and mental health professionals a deeper understanding of adoption-related trauma and how to respond to it in therapeutic settings.

Price: £275 plus VAT (£330 incl. VAT)

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Thanks for putting on the super 'Let's take it from the top' training. It was a really inspiring day that helped to make better sense of what some of our children and families are struggling with.

Social Worker

It was a pleasure to meet you and hear you speak. It was just right and hit the spot for our audience.

Education Officer

I wish more people would access trainings like this.

Mental health professional

The trainer was fantastic. Her insights so helpful... I was left wanting more.

Teacher

More training like this please!

Social worker

PAC-UK Advice Line 

Staffed by qualified and experienced PAC-UK counsellors/social workers who can provide advice and information on all aspects of adoption and other forms of permanent care.

Telephone: 0300 1800 090
Email: [email protected]
Open: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday: 10.00am-4.00pm; Thursday: 10.00am-7.30pm