Families First Dates for Your Diary!

Monthly Families First Keeping in Touch Sessions

These sessions are a short informal update on service news, training offers and parenting courses delivered by one of our service managers. Please email familiesfirst.support@hertfordshire.gov..uk if you would like an invitation to join.

• Thursday 12 March 2026, 9am-9.30am

• Thursday 9 April 2026, 9am-9.30am

• Thursday 7 May, 2026, 9am-9.30am

Join a Families First Induction day - ideal for new starters

We host Families First online Induction days 4 times per year, where various early help services give a 20 minute whistle-stop tour of their service and are attended by new internal CS staff and external partners. The next dates are:-

• Wednesday 8 July 2026 via Teams

Please email: familiesfirst.support@hertfordshire.gov.uk if you have any questions on the above or would like an invite sent to you.

Families First quarterly district partnership meetings

In addition, many of you are regular attendees at our partnership meetings, which are a great way of keeping up to date with new services, updates and make connections. You can find out more about the groups here and email familiesfirst.support@hertfordshire.gov.uk if you would like to join.

Working Together in Early Help Events

Next round of events will take place in late Spring 2026 - Book your place

Workforce Shadowing

My Teen Brain Online Training

Strategic Partnerships Commissioning are pleased to announce the next My Teen Brain Online Training courses that are due to be delivered on:

• Thursday 7th May 2026
• Thursday 4th June 2026

This FREE 1-day CPD course, from 10am – 3pm is for Hertfordshire practitioners working with parents of teenagers and/or working with teenagers or young people in Hertfordshire. It provides an opportunity to understand teenage brain development and the adolescent developmental process and consider both risk and resilience. It includes ideas and strategies for professionals working with teenagers and their parents to help them cope with challenging feelings and behaviour and to support young people in an emotionally healthy context. The day brings together the latest understanding from neuroscience and developmental psychology and the principles of The Nurturing Program from The Centre For Emotional Health.

 Please find the booking link below for you to reserve your place on one of our Autumn term courses.  This training is a very popular and is beneficial to all practitioners who work with Hertfordshire children and families. 

 

If you are interested in booking on to the course, please ensure that you ONLY reserve your place if you have the capacity to attend the training on your preferred day and for the entire duration of the session, from 10am – 3pm.

 

Thursday 7th May - My Teen Brain Online Training - 7 May | Hertfordshire County Council

Thursday 4th June - My Teen Brain Online Training - 4 June | Hertfordshire County Council

 

If you would like further information about the course or alternative dates, please email CSStrategic.Partnerships@hertfordshire.gov.uk

 

HSCP Learning & Development Programme

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:-

• Take a look at the HSCP Learning Hubs.  You can sign up for sessions via the website.  HSAB and HSCP training and resources | Hertfordshire County Council. You can also view useful resources and 7 minute briefings on this link.
• View the HSCP Neglect Hub here:- Neglect Hub | Hertfordshire County Council

• Hertfordshire’s Continuum of Need:

  The Continuum of Need is a threshold document that supports everyone working with Hertfordshire’s children, young people and families, to identify the “Level of Need” and the service responses that can be expected. It sets out how we can work together, by placing the child, young person and family at the centre, sharing information, and working with families to help them to find solutions early to prevent their difficulties escalating.

  Children's Services Continuum of Need 2025-26

  
  

  • An information leaflet for families.

  • A one-page briefing to explain the process in Children's Services front door.

  • A flowchart about what happens to your referral.

Money Advice Programme - Spring 2026

You can now download and view the Money Advice Unit Training Programme and booking form for WINTER 2025/6.

All the courses are free of charge but please note, we will only accept bookings from organisations in Hertfordshire. Due to demand, we only allow a maximum of two participants from each organisation per course.

If you want to book for more than one person, please complete a separate booking form for each person.

Once you return the completed booking form(s) to us, the attendees will receive a booking confirmation email within 5 working days. Please check your junk folder as sometimes our emails go to the junk folder straight away.

 

Exciting News – Our New Public Health Hertfordshire Training website is Live!

Our Public Health training website, designed to provide the workforce, carers and volunteers a place to view and book onto Public Health Hertfordshire courses in one place is now live. Whether you prefer in-person training, live online learning, or flexible e-learning, you can now browse and book onto these via the one site.

The site also includes information about some partner-led courses, such as suicide prevention and how to access these.

When you access the site, you will be able to see a wide range of valuable learning opportunities and course dates.

Right now, you can explore and book onto courses for: -

• Gambling-related harm awareness
• Healthy Homes for Healthier Lives
• Making Every Contact Count
• Health Checks
• Motivational Interviewing
• Mental Health & Suicide Prevention
• Dementia awareness
• Drugs & Alcohol
• Stop Smoking

This is just the beginning! The website is new, whilst there are plenty of courses to book onto already, new courses are being added regularly.

What can learners do? ✔ Filter courses by category ✔ Discover learning objectives and who each course is designed for ✔ Book individually or for a group of trainees ✔ Receive email booking confirmations, updates and follow-ups after your course ✔ Receive suggestions for what to learn next

Ready to upskill and make a difference? Visit the new site today and start exploring the courses that matter most to you and your team!

Public Health Training | Hertfordshire County Council

**If you are using a mobile device to view the website, click on “open filters” at the top of the page to see the different categories. **