Our courses are designed for parents and carers with children ranging from babies to secondary school age.
They help families to be healthy, stay safe and thrive through:
- improving parent/carer confidence
- developing knowledge and understanding of children’s learning needs
- increasing enthusiasm for family time
- developing opportunities for positive interactions
- support with sharing a healthy lifestyle
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Courses we offer
Examples of our family learning courses include:
- Supporting your neurodiverse child
- Safeguarding for parents and carers
- Family internet safety
- First aid for parents and carers
- Positive family interactions
- Family routines
- Cooking healthy family meals
- Family literacy and maths
- School readiness
- Family ESOL
For partners, schools, pre-schools, community groups, and volunteer organisations
Do you think a family learning activity could support your group or enhance your events? If so, we may be able to provide a family learning tutor to deliver an activity or course that equips parents and carers to support their child’s learning.
We work with families in both school and pre-school settings to strengthen their connections and to provide skills to help with family life.
Our goal is to help parents and carers to engage with, and support their children’s learning and development.
We offer a range of pre-designed courses, or we can deliver bespoke courses developed with partners such as children’s centres, schools, libraries, countryside services and Home-Start.
Due to our funding constraints, we can only work with either adults, or adults and children together. We can't work with children on their own.
More information
If you’d like a member of our team to contact you to discuss possibilities, or if you're interested in having a face-to-face family learning course or event at your venue, we'd love to hear from you.
Simply email cs.dacesfamilylearning@derbyshire.gov.uk giving us your contact details including your postcode and we'll get back to you.