Free Training Offer From Hertfordshire Children's Trust Partnership

Work With Parents Level 3 Award

• Available to anyone in Hertfordshire working directly with parents and running parenting courses or groups
• 75 free places - now fully booked, but applications for the remaining courses will be added to a waiting list
• Priority given to frontline staff without a relevant qualification at QCF Level 3 or above who are currently running parenting groups.
• Meets National Occupational Standards for Work with Parents
• Supports Herts proposed updated parenting support quality standards due to be published early 2010
• QCF Level 3 Award (WWP 3599) accredited by City & Guilds

What is the Work With Parents Award?

This qualification provides essential knowledge and skills required to work effectively with parents and support parents in their parenting support role, in a wide range of settings. The WWP qualification is for learners either in a paid or voluntary capacity, and comprises a practical course involving a portfolio of short essays, personal reflective reports, records and observations of practice. There is a requirement to run a parenting course to complete the portfolio and ideally this should be run concurrently with the training.

The units covered by the WWP Award in Hertfordshire are:

• Unit 300: Build and maintain relationship in work with parents (6 credits)
• Unit 304: Effective communication with parents (3 credits)
• Unit 308: Work with groups of parents (3 credits)

The credits obtained by completing the WWP Level 3 Award can go towards the WWP Level 3 Certificate.

Course organisation

• 10 full study days held fortnightly or weekly; each day is 9.30am to 4.30pm
• 5 hours of home study between sessions
• Additional optional day to support portfolio building
• Delivered in cohorts of 15 learners
• Facilitated by supportive trainers with extensive experience of working in partnership with parents and delivering evidence based parenting interventions

Further information for managers is here.

Course dates

ID	Venue and dates
HW01	Oxlease House, Hatfield. AL10 8TJ   map
	Wednesdays: Jan 27, Feb 10 and 24, Mar 10 and 24, Apr 21, May 5 and 19, June 16 and 30, Sept 8; interviews Jan 20
HW02	Oxlease House, Hatfield. AL10 8TJ   map
	Wednesdays: Mar 3 and 31, Apr 28, May 12 and 26, June 9 and 23, July 7, 14 and 21; interviews Feb 3
HW03	Sele Farm Community Centre, Hertford. SG14 2LW   map
	Mondays: Apr 19 and 26, May 10, 17 and 24, June 7, 14, 21 and 28, July 5 and 12
HW04	Foundation House, 2-4 Forum Place, Fiddlebridge Lane, Hatfield. AL10 0RN   map
	Tuesdays: Sept 21, Oct 5 and 19, Nov 2, 16 and 30, Dec 7, Jan 11 and 25, Feb 8 and 22; interviews TBD
HW05	Sele Farm Community Centre, Hertford. SG14 2LW   map
	Mondays: Sept 20, Oct 4 and 18, Nov 1, 15 and 29, Dec 6, Jan 10 and 24, Feb 7 and 21

Booking

Places are limited and applying early is highly recommended.

Click here for details of how to apply, including planned course dates and online application.

Click here to access the moodle learning platform for those who are already enrolled.