Families, children and learning workforce development

We provide training for everyone working with children, young people and their families.

About our training

Our training is available to community and voluntary sector organisations, other public sector organisations and private businesses in the city.

Brighton & Hove Safeguarding Children Partnership (BHSCP)

For information on the learning and development available go to the BHSCP website  

Brighton & Hove Sexual Health and Contraception Service (SHAC) 

Brighton & Hove Sexual Health and Contraception Service (SHAC) is free, confidential and open to everyone. 

Services provided include: 

  • testing for and providing preventative measures for sexually transmitted infections
  • contraception advice and support
  • HIV advice and support
  • support and advice on sexual health and wellbeing
  • specialist clinics   

COVID-19 psychological first aid

Psychological First Aid (PFA) is the globally recommended training for supporting people during emergencies and offers guidance on delivering psychosocial care in the immediate aftermath of the emergency event.

On this 3-week course, you'll explore the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and what you can do to help people cope.

This course has been produced by Public Health England and is based on international guidance from the World Health Organisation, United Nations and partners

Suicide awareness

This suicide awareness course will enable you to have potentially life saving conversations with someone you are worried about. 

Positive behaviour support

This free, easy to access and good quality Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Awareness course provides a straightforward introduction to PBS. It explains PBS, putting values into practice, how behaviour works and PBS interventions.

This online learning course can be used for induction, as well as a refresher. It takes about 3 or 4 hours to complete and can be done in small bite size chunks to suit your learning style.

'Prevent' online learning

This course offers an introduction to the Prevent duty. It explains how it aims to safeguard vulnerable people from being radicalised towards supporting terrorism or becoming terrorists themselves. The course is relevant to public facing services in Brighton & Hove.

Project management

Gain the basic skills to manage all phases of project lifecycles effectively, using the most appropriate methods and tools with this free project management course from the Open University. The course should take around 3 hours to complete.

Council staff can also view our Project Management Toolkit..