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:-
Money Advice Unit Training Programme, Spring & Summer 2023
The Money Advice Unit Training Programme and booking form for SPRING & SUMMER 2023 is now available.
All these courses are free of charge for Hertfordshire organisations. Due to demand, we only allow a maximum of two participants from each organisation per course.
The training courses are a mixture of face to face delivery and online, using Zoom or MS Teams. Please see each individual course description for more details and timings.
Our courses are a combination of single and double days run over mornings or afternoons. Please make a careful note of dates and the timing of the courses while booking them.
Instructions for how to access our online courses will be emailed to you once your booking is confirmed along with course material.
Our face-to-face courses are held at: Hertfordshire Development Centre, Robertson House, Six Hills Way, Stevenage, SG1 2FQ.
There is a restaurant where you can buy lunch and refreshments, or you can bring your own food. If you have any queries or need further assistance, please contact Hertfordshire Development Centre on 01438 845114.
FREE 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.
Please find below the link for you to book your place on to the upcoming webinar that will be delivered on Wednesday 7th June 2023. This training is a very popular course and is beneficial to all practitioners who work with Hertfordshire children and families. If you are interested in booking on to the course, please follow the link below and ensure that you ONLY book on to this course if you have the capacity to attend the training on this day and for the entire duration, which is from 10am – 3pm.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/603876760647
The course will also be delivered on the alternative dates below. If you would like further information about the course or would like to attend the course later on in the year, please email EHcommissioning@hertfordshire.gov.uk
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10th October 23
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10am – 3pm
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8th November 23
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10am – 3pm
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6th December 23
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10am – 3pm
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23rd January 24
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10am – 3pm
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29th February 24
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10am – 3pm
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19th March 24
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10am – 3pm
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Workforce Shadowing
The vision for Families First training and development is to create a skilled, confident and resilient multi-agency workforce that supports whole family working.
Workforce shadowing provides a great opportunity to find out more about other services, what they do and how they might be able to support you in your work. It also enhances communication across agencies and helps strengthen and develop professional relationships, building local networks.
If you would like to organise a workforce shadowing placement for either yourself or a team member please complete the form below stating the service you would like to shadow and the preferred district and we will match you to a shadowing opportunity.
The following services have offered to host shadowing opportunities in either in person or virtually:-
- Citizens Advice (Brox/St Albans/North Herts)
- Childcare provision
- CGL
- Domestic Abuse Support
- Families First Panels Team
- Family Support Service, Family Centre
- Herts Mind Network
- Herts Sports Partnership
- MIND in Mid Herts
- ASB Team, District Council, Three Rivers
- Housing Support, District Council
- Intensive Family Support Team (IFST)
- Local School Partnerships
- Police
- Public Health Nursing
- Schools Early Years Provsion
- Specialist Adolescent Services Hertfordshire (SASH)
- Services for Young People
- Supporting Families Practice Team
Additionally, if you would like to add your service to the above list, again please email us with your contact details, service and district.
Familesfirst.support@hertfordshire.gov.uk
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Workforce development (hertfordshire.gov.uk)