Families First News

Learning & development

Families First Dates for Your Diary!

There are many ways to stay updated with Families First News, including events, webinars, induction days, and partnership meetings. Discover what’s coming up here

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 5th June, 9am-9.30

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 25 June 2025 via Teams

Please emailfamiliesfirst.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

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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:-

    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 April 2025 Herts Adviser

    Free professionals training - working with families to support healthy lifestyles

    Beezee would like to invite ALL professionals working with families to Beezee Fussy Eating Professionals Training on Tuesday 3rd June 12pm – 1pm – online and free to join!

      • Expert guidance on fussy eating in children.
      • Exploration of children’s eating styles.
      • Practical techniques to support parents and carers.

        Are the families you work with concerned about their child’s fussy eating behaviours? Join us for this free training session designed for professionals supporting children and their families. This hour-long session will be led by expert family nutritionists who specialize in helping families navigate the complexities of fussy eating behaviours.

        In this session:

      This training is open to all Professionals working with children and their families in Hertfordshire.

      Sign up today using this link https://hrt.maximusuk.co.uk/events/free-professional-training/ or click on the QR code on the attached flyer, and complete a short form.

      The Teams meeting link and all login information will be sent to you thereafter.

      ALSO, look out for our upcoming ‘Raising the Issue’ training in a few weeks’ time!

      Download the poster here

    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 on this page 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 (Broxbourne/St Albans/North Herts)
    • Childcare provision
    • CGL (drug & alcohol support)
    • District Council, ASB Team, Three Rivers
    • District Council, Housing Support, Broxbourne
    • Domestic Abuse Support
    • DSPL (Delivering Special Provision Locally) - All areas
    • Families First Panels Team
    • Family Support Service, Family Centre
    • Herts Mind Network
    • Herts Sports Partnership 
    • Home-Start (Watford & Three Rivers)
    • 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
    • Re-Intergration, Virtual School
    • Schools Early Years Provision 
    • 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 

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

    Workforce development (hertfordshire.gov.uk)

    Step2Skills

    step to skills

    Step2Skills - Find on-line and in-person courses for May here and June here:  courses running such as Level 1 - Preparing to work in schools, Improving your skills in Microsoft excel, Level 1 in garment construction, Social media for business, Explore your sewing machine, Assertiveness and communication skills, Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint, Online job search and applications, Interview skills to name but a few.

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