Courses
Foundation Course in Medicines Administration | Foster Care | Online
This version of our Foundation Course in Medicines Administration is designed specifically for foster carers. It teaches how to safely support with, and where appropriate, administer medicines to the children and young people in your care.
- Learn at your own pace
- Instant assessment and results
- Print or store your certificate
- Videos and interactive content
- Bulk discounts for 2+ courses
- Free manager dashboard for 10+ courses
- Print or store certificates
- Videos and interactive content
£42.50
Course overview
Course last audited November 2025
This course has been developed specifically for foster care and reflects the realities of supporting children and young people with their medicines in your home.
It includes a full set of practical paperwork and medicines charts designed for foster carers, helping you manage medicines safely and confidently in line with fostering requirements.
The course is flexible—complete the core topics, then choose optional modules relevant to the medicines you support with (e.g. inhalers, topical medicines, eye drops).
We have extensive experience delivering medication training across adult and child services and local authorities nationwide.
Aimed at
- Foster carers
- Anyone supporting children and young people with medicines in a foster care setting
Course content
- Understanding the difference between self-medication, medicines support and medicines administration
- When is a medicines (MAR) chart needed?
- How to set up and use medicines charts correctly
- How to record different scenarios (e.g. refused doses, variable doses, PRN medicines)
- Checking medicines received from the pharmacy (including blister packs)
- Understanding pharmacy labels and instructions
- Medicines expiry dates and safe use
- Ordering prescriptions and managing supplie
- Administering non-prescribed medicines safely
- Safe storage and disposal of medicines
- Supporting self-medication and independence
- Where to find reliable information about medicines
- Recognising and responding to side effects
- Administering creams and ointments
- Oral liquids
- Creams and ointments (optional module)
- Eye drops (optional module)
- Inhalers (optional module)
Accreditation
This course is accredited by CPD Assessed.
Certification
Mapping
- Fostering Services: National Minimum Standards (2011) (Department for Education)
- The Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011
- Children Act 1989 and Children Act 2004
- Care Standards Act 2000
Cost
| Per Person | Price (Excluding VAT) |
|---|---|
| 1 | £42.50 |
| 2 - 9 | £40.00 |
| 10 - 24 | £37.50 |
| 25 - 49 | £35.00 |
| 50 - 74 | £32.50 |
| 75+ | £30.00 |