About Us

Welcome to the South West Herts Partnership. We offer a free and confidential family support service to families whose children attend any of the 90 schools in the South West Herts Schools Partnership.

Parenting can be one of the most difficult and challenging roles we undertake, especially in times of hardship or crisis. We work with families by helping them overcome social, emotional and physical barriers by giving them practical advice, support and the right tools and strategies. This enables them to feel more confident, improve self-esteem and achieve positive relationships. We believe that by supporting parents/carers with parenting skills, this will improve a child/young person’s behaviour in the home and at school helping them to achieve their full potential and remove any barriers to learning.

You can access our service by approaching your child(ren)’s school. We are an early intervention service and aim to prevent needs escalating to require intervention by more specialist services.

  • What Can We Offer Parents/Carers?

    Our School Family Workers are happy to meet with you and your child in your family home, school or a location convenient to you and offer a wealth of experience and knowledge to help support with a range of needs, such as:

    • Providing advice, emotional support, mentoring, encouragement, and motivation
    • Managing challenging behaviour
    • Supporting families with children with additional needs
    • Managing finances and household budgeting
    • Housing concerns
    • Changing school/transition
    • General routines and boundaries
    • Assisting with engagement with your child’s school and other agencies
    • Advising on local parenting groups or support groups
    • Bereavement & Separation

  • What can we offer Children/Young People

    Our School Family Workers are friendly and approachable and are able to listen to any worries children/young people may be experiencing. They can offer practical ideas and advice to help children/young people with:

    • Feeling more confident
    • Becoming more resilient and able to cope with difficult situations
    • Improving their attendance
    • Becoming happier in school and at home
    • Being more organised
    • Managing their anger
    • Building better relationships
    • Finding appropriate support groups
    • Accessing the right support within the school environment to remove the barriers to   learning.
    • Improving social skills and learning to share their feelings

  • What We Can Offer Schools?

    Schools have access to a dedicated School Family Worker who will work closely with the school and their families. We provide a year-round service and an initial planning meeting followed by regular reviews with the school and family members. We have helped Schools with:

    • Improving attendance and punctuality at school and in lessons
    • Improving behaviour around the school and in lessons
    • Increased retention in school
    • Improving homework completion
    • Improving the relationship/communication between parent and school
    • Improving perceptions and understanding of student
    • Undertaking and/or co-ordinating a Families First Assessment.
    • Attending, contributing and leading on TAF meetings where appropriate.

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