Families First News

Learning & development

HSCP Learning & Development Programme

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HSCP provide a wide variety of learning programmes and workshops across Hertfordshire to develop skills for safeguarding children, young people and adults.

We use this page to give you some quick links through to the HSCP learning programmes:-

View the latest L&D Programme - May2022


View the HSCP Neglect Hub here:- Neglect Hub | Hertfordshire County Council

Hertfordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership - Learning Management System (event-booking.org.uk)


To understand our thresholds a bit more, view the Continuum of needs (hertfordshire.gov.uk)


Year of Learning May 2022_Escalations of Concerns and Professional Disagreements about Decisions

Please find below this month’s 7 Minute Briefing on Escalations of Concerns and Professional Disagreements about Decisions

This briefing can also be found on our website – Resources a Year of Learning. Please share at your Team Meetings and with our Partners Agencies.

Year of Learning May 2022_Escalations of Concerns and Professional Disagreements about Decisions


HSAB and HSCP training and resources | Hertfordshire County Council

Talking Teens Parent Course

We are pleased to be able to offer an additional TALKING TEENS 6 week parent course to parents and carers on 12-19 year olds living or being schooled in Hertfordshire. 

This will be an online course delivered to them at home via Zoom, commencing Monday 6th June.

 

Please promote this courses amongst your colleagues and families.  

Look out for our post on Facebook and please give it a share.

Parents can self refer, or be referred using the form attached 

Mental Health Peer Supporter Training - NEW DATES!

Could you support people in your community with their mental health?

MIND in Mid Herts are running free online Mental Health Peer Supporter training for local organisations and communities in Hertfordshire, which may be of interest to you or those you work with.We have added additional course dates for this training – please see below:

  • Monday 20th June, Tuesday 21st June, Wednesday 22nd June, Thursday 23rd June (4x half days 9am to 1pm)
  • Tuesday 12th July, Wednesday 13th July (2x full days 9.30am to 4.30pm)
  • Tuesday 26th July, Wednesday 27th July (2x full days 9.30am to 4.30pm)
  • Tuesday 9th August, Wednesday 10th August, Thursday 11th August, Friday 12th August (4x half-days 9am to 1pm)
  • Wednesday 17th August, Thursday 18th August (2x full days 9.30am to 4.30pm)

This training will give you the skills to support others with their mental health and wellbeing. Please see the attached info sheet for more details.

You can book onto a free course by clicking on the below link:

https://www.mindinmidherts.org.uk/product/building-stronger-communities-in-herts/

 

My Baby’s Brain & Teen Brain Training dates

My Teen Brain focuses on a key stage of brain development and highlights how changes in the adolescent brain, in conjunction with experience and environment, can affect emotions, relationships, behaviours, sleep and attitudes to risk.  We are delighted to announce that My Teen Brain Summer term course dates have been released for practitioners to book on to.

The course will be delivered virtually on from 10am-3pm:

  • Thursday 23rd June 2022
  • Wednesday 20th July 2022

There is still a few spaces left for the course that is due to be delivered on Thursday 23rd June. Please click on the link below if you would like to book your place on to the course.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/family-services-commissioning-hertfordshire-county-council-18892532428

Alternatively, practitioners can book on to the course being delivered on Wednesday 20th July by clicking on to the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-teen-brain-online-training-tickets-354563046617


You can now book onto upcoming My Baby’s Brain (MBB) training. MBB introduces practitioners, who work with children aged 0-3, to the key principals of neuroscience and how they can help parents, children and babies form strong attachments that will encourage healthy development.

My Baby’s Brain has been running in Hertfordshire since 2011. In that time, the challenges that families face have evolved, particularly because of the current pandemic. To ensure parents continue to be supported at the earliest opportunity, Early Help Commissioning have worked with partners KCA to refresh My Baby’s Brain training to allow for a greater depth of learning for professionals with additional focus on resilience and managing toxic stress. 

 

For more information and helpful resources, please see My baby's brain | Hertfordshire County Council. You can also find details on our MBB programme.

 

Money Advice Unit - FREE Online Training

The Spring/Summer training programme from the Money Advice Unit.

We are pleased to be able to offer an increased number of courses in this programme. This is due to funding we have received from Building Life Chances and a number of these courses will be delivered on or behalf by The Benefits Training Company. The booking process remains the same though  - please complete the booking form below and return to MAUtraining@hertfordshire.gov.uk.

Please note that places are restricted to two people, per course, per organisation and booking is on a first come, first served basis. 

Please use the electronic booking form; electronic signatures are accepted.

If you are a Training Manager booking on behalf of staff; please remember to provide the attendee(s) direct email address as well as your own, as this is where the calendar invites will be sent to participants. If all details are not provided, your booking request will not be processed.

 

Remember we also have a free online Universal Credit course available at www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/benefits

 

Workforce development

The vision for Families First training and development is to create a skilled, confident and resilient multi-agency workforce that supports whole family working.

To support this, we have brought together training courses that are available to practitioners across Hertfordshire. We aim to add new resources to this page when available and we have recently added some resources on Trauma Informed practice. 

Please take a look at the page, bookmark and share with teams, where appropriate.

Workforce development (hertfordshire.gov.uk)


Workforce Shadowing

Virtual working has, in some cases made shadowing easier to access, and we have opportunities to shadow Families First Triage, Specialist Adolescent Services Hertfordshire (SASH), Intensive Family Support Teams and YC Hertfordshire. In addition some partners are able to provide 1-1 overviews of their service on request. 

If this is something you/or your team member feel would be of benefit, please email Familesfirst.support@hertfordshire.gov.uk stating the service you would like to shadow and the preferred district and we will do our best to facilitate a shadowing opportunity.

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