Family Hub training
Positive Parenting Relationships
Positive Parenting Relationships are vital in supporting children’s and young people’s health and wellbeing. There is clear evidence parental conflict can have a lifelong negative impact reducing children’s and young people’s opportunities to achieve. Families need the knowledge and skills to make positive change and improve outcomes.
OnePlusOne
OnePlusOne is a digital training package that is designed to support parents and professionals. Families will be able to access three main online courses:
- Me, You and Baby Too – designed to help new and expectant parents cope with the changes that could happen in their relationship when they become parents and learn how to cope with stress and conflict constructively.
- Arguing Better – designed to raise awareness of the impact parental conflict can have on children and help parents develop better ways of managing stress and arguments together.
- Getting it Right for Children – designed to support separated parents, helping them to avoid the harmful situation of their children getting caught up in the middle of their conflict.
OnePlusOne professional training offers a guide to these resources so practitioners are equipped with the knowledge and skills to support parents to access this digital offer. There is also the opportunity to develop group sessions for parents.
Open to all agencies who are interested, there is a working group that is developing the Positive Parenting Relationships offer available in Derby.
OnePlusOne has developed a mobile app called 'Separating better' to support separating parents in creating a positive environment for co-parenting. The app is designed for parents to use independently in the early stages of separation and is not intended for practitioner-led intervention. However, practitioners are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the app, refer parents to it, and support them through their journey without direct involvement. Practitioners wishing to explore the app can register using 'TEST' as their name to indicate non-participation in any evaluation.
Reducing parental conflict
The Parental Relationships Spectrum helps professionals and parents to distinguish between healthy, conflictual and abusive relationships.
Regular regional webinars are held on assessing the difference between parents in conflict and domestic abuse.
Please email cypwfld@derby.gov.uk if you would like to discuss either the training, tools or resources.
There are a range of other family support services.
The Solihull Approach
Across the UK and internationally, the Solihull Approach supports mental health and wellbeing in parents, children, schools, older adults and high stress workplaces through an evidence-based model in trainings, online courses and resources.
It has a website called inourplace where professionals who work with families can signpost them to get parenting advice from pregnancy until their child is 19 years old. Parents can get guidance on their child’s physical and mental health to help improve relationships from before the child is born to early adulthood.
This service is for Derby city families and professional only. The courses and website can be translated into the parents’ choice of language. Derby’s Family Hubs will also offer some face-to-face workshops.
More information, including how parents and professionals can register and access the online courses and resources can be found on the inourplace/Derby website. Use the access code: MARKEATON to sign up for free.
Watch this video all about the Solihull Approach and its training in emotional health and wellbeing for children:
EY practitioner wellbeing support
Get ideas by visiting the GOV.UK/Early years practitioner wellbeing support website on how to support the mental health and wellbeing of yourself and other practitioners working in your early years setting including:
- the importance of early years practitioner wellbeing
- early years practitioner wellbeing case studies
- support for early years practitioners
- workplace toolkits and resources for managers.
Stronger Practice Hub
The Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Early Years Stronger Practice Hub’s vision is to support and empower practitioners working in the diverse range of early years settings across our region, enabling them to be at the cutting edge of great practice.
Their work will specifically focus on supporting children who have been the most affected by Covid-19 to recover from its impact. They will be building peer-to-peer networks and supporting settings with areas of development that research informs them have been most impacted by Covid-19 - personal social and emotional development, communication and language, and early literacy and maths.
You can find out more by visiting the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Early Years Stronger Practice Hub website.
The National Centre for Family Hubs
Anna Freud leads the National Centre for Family Hubs, the national initiative funded by the Department for Education, to help ensure all babies, children and families have the support they need through a network of Family Hubs across England.
Their Implementation toolkit contains 18 modules based on what the research tells them works for families and has been developed with the input of their evidence partners, participation workers and practitioners.
Their Start for Life toolkit proposes action in the following six areas to develop baby-centred transformation of support:
- midwifery
- health visiting
- parent-infant mental health
- infant feeding
- Special Education Needs and Disability.
Mental health for EY
We all have mental health, just as we have physical health. In the same way that we can be more or less physically healthy from time to time, we can also be more or less mentally healthy from time to time too.
Help for Early Years Providers has added new information and guidance on supporting babies and young children with their mental health. The guidance:
- explains how practitioners can support positive mental health in early years children
- includes emotional and behavioural support strategies to use in early years settings
- links to further reading and resources.
Improve your setting
Find practical advice for supporting you and your staff in your setting:
elearning for healthcare
elearning for healthcare (elfh) was formed in April 2007 to deliver a range of programmes, after a successful pilot with the Radiology-Integrated Training Initiative (R-ITI) which generated a model for the future delivery of generic and professional healthcare training.
In 2013, elfh transitioned across to Health Education England and continues to work in partnership to develop elearning programmes to support the health and care workforce.
elfh is now in the process of delivering or developing more than 400 elearning programmes in collaboration with organisations including Royal Colleges, Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement and Public Health England.
If you’re interested in working with HEE elfh to develop elearning content, visit their website or email tel@hee.nhs.uk for more details.
EY child development training
Find information about each area of learning in the EYFS and get ideas for activities you can do with early years children:
Derby Direction
The Derby Direction website allows schools and those who work with children and young people to see the support services available to them in the local area, focusing on the topic of inclusion. This website has been designed for colleagues to navigate and find the universal, targeted or specialist support services they require, with the option to download and save a bespoke report.