Families First Dates for Your Diary!

Monthly Families First Keeping in Touch Sessions

These sessions are an 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.

13 March 2025, 9-9:30am, via MS Teams

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:-

• 2 April 2025
• 25 June 2025

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.

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:-

• View the latest newsletter here: Winter 2024/25
  
  
• The next round of the HSCP Learning Hubs are on the topic of Cultural Competencies. Further details are included here

   You can sign up for this sessions via the website.

• 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)

  • 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.

• These compliment the new Children's Services online referral portal.

• 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.
  
  
• HSCP Practice Guidance Safeguarding Supervision Standards

Smoke Free Homes training preceding Lullaby Trust Safer Sleep training

We're pleased to be able to advise that due to large numbers, the Smoke Free team are able to offer further training dates for the smoke free homes training, which precedes our ultimate goal - the Safer Sleep training, 10-16 March.

Due to an initial hiccup in the booking system, some applicants also may not have been sent the joining link in time, and we hope this will help to ensure their attendance, if missed before.

Additional dates are

• February 28^th - 10:00 – 11:00
• March 5^th  - 10:30 – 11:30
• March 7^th – 11:00 – 12:00

 

Here’s the registration link with the new dates

Money Advice Unit Training Programme, Spring/Summer 2025

Please find attached the Money Advice Unit Training Programme and booking form for SPRING/SUMMER 2025.

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. 

Our courses are done both online and face to face. Please see programme to see which you would prefer to attend.

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.

You can also download the January 2025 Herts Adviser

My Teen Brain Training for Practitioners

Strategic Partnerships Commissioning  (formerly known as Family & Health Services Commissioning)  are pleased to announce that there are still some spaces left on the My Teen Brain Online Training course on Thursday 13^th February 2025.

This 1-day CPD course, from 10am – 3pm 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 Programme from Family Links The Centre For Emotional Health.

Please find below the booking link for you to reserve your place on to one of our courses.  This training is a very popular course and is beneficial to the all practitioners who work with Hertfordshire children and families.  If you are interested in booking on to the , please ensure that you ONLY book on to this course if you have the capacity to attend the training on your preferred day and for the entire duration of the session, which is from 10am – 3pm.

Please see below the links for you to reserve your place.

4^th March 2025 -  My Teen Brain Online Training | Hertfordshire County Council

20^th March 2025 -  My Teen Brain Online Training | Hertfordshire County Council

If you would like further information about our courses, please email CSStrategic.Partnerships@hertfordshire.gov.uk

 

My Baby's Brain training for practitioners

Do you work with young children or their families? Book your free ‘My Baby’s Brain’ (MBB) courses for January to April 2025…

What? MBB courses introduce the key principals of neuroscience and how they can help parents, children and babies form strong attachments that will encourage healthy development.

Who? These courses are for practitioners who work with children aged 0-3 years old in Hertfordshire.

Where? The MBB courses are delivered on Zoom.

The following upcoming courses are available, book your place now:

1. My Baby’s Brain Universal (strand A) – this course is for practitioners providing universal support to all families with young children:

• Tuesday 25th February 2025 at 9.30am-3pm
• Wednesday 2nd April 2025 at 9.30am-3pm

Book your place at: Strand A Registration Link

2. My Baby’s Brain Targeted (strand B) – this course is for practitioners providing targeted support for those children and families identified as in need of additional support:

• Tuesday 4th March 2025at 9.30am-3pm

Book your place at: Strand B Registration Link

Email us at ehcommissioning@hertfordshire.gov.uk if you have any questions.

 

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