There are still places available on the following courses taking place during the week commencing 7th April 2025, should you or anyone you know be interested in attending.
Places on our courses must be booked through the online platform Learning Together, and you can book a place by clicking on the course title which will take you directly to the Learning Together page for that course where you can log in and sign up.
Please go to ncc.learningpool.com to log in or create an account and if you need any assistance to register, please contact peopleandculture@northumberland.gov.uk. For any general queries please email healthimprovement@northumberland.gov.uk.
Please note : to be eligible to attend our free courses you must either live or work in Northumberland and we reserve the right to reject or charge for applications from anyone who does not meet this criteria.
Child Safety and Accident Prevention
The purpose of this training is to understand the importance of reducing childhood accidents, to gain a thorough understanding of the main causes of accidents in England and Northumberland, and how to integrate this knowledge into practice. The training will also cover childhood accidents and development, signposting, and childhood illness.
- 8 April 2025 – 9.30 to 11.30
This training is for people who want to feel more comfortable talking about money with others and wish to learn more about the relationship between money and health, looking at current trends and local data. We will also explore how to initiate conversations about money and signposting to appropriate services for support, using the Make Every Contact Count (MECC) framework.
- 7 April 2025 – 1.00 to 3.30
Supporting Children to be at a Healthy Weight, Making Every Contact Count
This training will support you in how to have conversations about weight with parents/carers of a child who is outside the healthy weight range. The training includes an overview of unhealthy weight, guidance around healthy eating and physical activity and using making every contact count to have successful conversations around weight.
- 10 April 2025 – 9.30 to 12.00
