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:-

• HSAB and HSCP training and resources | Hertfordshire County Council
  
  
• View the HSCP Neglect Hub here:- Neglect Hub | Hertfordshire County Council
  
  
• To understand our thresholds a bit more, view the Continuum of needs (hertfordshire.gov.uk)
  
  
• View the November 2023 updates to the HSCP Procedures, which can also be found on our website. 
  
  
• The HSCP, Hertfordshire Community Trust and East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust have developed a guidance document for patients and carers relating to Child Protection Medicals. This can be found on our website, so you can signpost to patients/carers to explain the Child Protection Medical process if required.

Recent 7 Minute Briefings

• Abusive Head Trauma in Babies - 7 Minute Briefing
  
  
• 7 minute briefing to support professionals to understand what parental consent is. It has been kept short and on one page, using language that is accessible to all professionals.

• Also a 7 Minute Briefing on the Bruising Policy .  This briefing can also be found on our website –Resources/Year of Learning.

• 7 minute briefing on Medical Neglect from HSCP.

Free Mental Health First Aid Training

As part of the ongoing response to the cost-of-living crisis,  Hertfordshire County Council are funding free Mental Health First Aid Training for volunteers and staff at foodbanks, community spaces, faith and community groups. We are working with Hertsmere Borough Council who are helping to co-ordinate this across Hertfordshire so please do promote to within your localities.    

The 2-day Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) courses will be held on Monday 25^th and Tuesday 26^th March 2024, with further dates to be announced.

The course will take place at Farnham House, Stevenage. To register for the course, please follow the link below and ensure you input your full name and email address:

REGISTER HERE

The link will direct you to a form in the MHFA England website requesting the following details:

• Name and email address
• If you require accessible course materials? YES/NO

If yes, to specify. For example: large print/video captions or materials compatible with a screen reader. You will not have to input your home or work address.

Please note:

Places are limited, register as soon as possible!

• Course delivery on the 25 & 26 March
• Course certificate sent via email once you complete the full course.
• IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND THE WHOLE COURSE PLEASE ALLOW SOMEONE WHO CAN.

Hertfordshire County Council know many people visiting community spaces and foodbanks require support and we will be offering a Resource Guide, marketing information, access to Togetherall and free Suicide Prevention Training as additional help to organisations  to aid all our residents in need.  This is a partnership with Hertsmere Borough Council and are grateful for the work done by Jyoti  Bhojani to commission. 

Download the leaflet here

 

My Baby's Brain courses for professionals

You can now book onto our redesigned ‘My Baby’s Brain’ full day courses for professionals working with young children and parents:

My Baby’s Brain introduces practitioners, who work with children aged 0-3 years old, 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 redesigned and will now be delivered virtually over one day. We are also offering Deep Dive Webinars to delve into topics such as shame even further! The following trainings are available:

2. My Baby’s Brain Universal (strand B) – 1-day virtual training for practitioners delivering targeted services to children and families e.g., Family Safeguarding and Specialist Services, Family Centre practitioners & specialist midwives.

• Monday the 12th of February 2024 at 9.30am-3pm

3. My Baby’s Brain Deep Dive Webinar: ‘Beyond shame: developing a positive sense of identity’ - for practitioners who work with children aged 0-3 years old and their families that have already completed My Baby’s Brain training (strand A or B).

• Wednesday the 6^th of March 2024 at 11am-12.30pm *Please note, content of this Deep Dive session is to be confirmed.

How to book your place: Those who have previously completed My Baby’s Brain training or are booked to complete strand A or B training will be sent a link via email to book a place on this training.

Link to book your place: Strand B Registration Link

 

You can find further information and check out Frequently Asked Questions at My Baby's Brain - for Professionsals (hertfordshire.gov.uk) or email us at ehcommissioning@hertfordshire.gov.uk

 

My Teen Brain - online training

The Early Help Commissioning Team are pleased to announce the upcoming FREE  My Teen Brain Online Training course for Hertfordshire practitioners.  This 1-day CPD course is for those working with parents of teenagers and/or working with teenagers 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 Programme from Family Links The Centre For Emotional Health.

It you are interested in attending one of the dates later in the year, please email EHcommissioning@hertfordshire.gov.uk

29th February 24	10am – 3pm	Book here
19th March 24	10am – 3pm	Book here

 

Money Advice Unit Training Programme, Winter 2023

The Money Advice Unit Training Programme and booking form for WINTER 2023 is now available.

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.

 

View the latest edition of Herts Adviser.

Workforce Shadowing

Suicide Prevention Training

The Suicide Prevention Network involves more than 20 organisations. Our vision is to make Hertfordshire a county where no-one ever gets to a point where they feel suicide is their only option.

Suicide Prevention Training Courses (suicidepreventionherts.org.uk)

Suicide Bereavement support

New upcoming dates for fully funded CDP suicide bereavement training, delivered by Harmless.

Those attending will benefit from the following learning outcomes:

• The magnitude of suicide bereavement
• Suicide loss as a unique form of complex bereavement
• ‘Complicated grief’, trauma, and other individual responses to suicide
• The wider impact of bereavement on those exposed to or affected by suicide
• The stigma and shame associated with suicide and bereavement
• Bereavement by suicide as a unique risk factor for suicide
• Responding to those bereaved by suicide, and how we can help to support them
• Key UK strategic guidance and research on best practice in shaping services to incorporate suicide bereavement support
• Postvention: what is means and why it matters
• A local service perspective: CHUMS work supporting those affected

Click here for more information, dates and booking details