All practitioners need the skills and knowledge to effectively deliver early help and a commitment to working together to make it happen.
Early help training includes an introduction to integrated working, its aims and key purpose. It also has the shared processes used for assessing and supporting children and young people.
Workshop 1 - What is early help? - early help is everyone’s responsibility.
This workshop is for all staff who come into contact with children, young people and families in their day-to-day role. This lite bite two-hour session will help you to understand the whole family approach to early help. Using group discussion, exercises, and good practice examples, you'll work with colleagues from a wide range of services within Barnsley to understand the role everyone plays in early help. You'll also understand what early help looks like and how to support children, young people, and families.
Workshop 2 – How to do early help - the early help assessment and toolkit.
This workshop is for practitioners with a direct role in delivering early help. This full day workshop will help you to gain knowledge, skills, and confidence to enable you to provide effective and practical early help to families. Using interactive exercises, case studies and the range of tools and support available to you as a practitioner, you'll learn how to complete an early help assessment capturing the voice of the child and the family. You'll gain an understanding of the different pathways of support and advice available to children, young people, and families and how to access these.
Other training
Training courses can now be booked by the learner on our new learning management system, the Pod – your personal online development.
Before booking any training you’ll need to view one of the guides below. You can either choose to view the video guidance or the manual guide, however you learn best.
Employees - shows learners step by step how to book on a course, cancel a place etc.
Managers - shows managers how to approve or reject their team members booking requests.
We also have frequently asked questions. If you've followed the guidance and frequently asked questions and still have a query relating to Pod please email pod@barnsley.gov.uk.
You can also look at the multi-agency training courses on Barnsley Safeguarding Children Partnership website.