NEPACS - FREE Hidden Sentence awareness training for anyone working with children and families in the Darlington area

News - 9 September 2025

Nepacs deliver a range of services to support children and families impacted by imprisonment at prisons, court and in the community. To help raise awareness of the needs of prisoners’ families and how agencies can support them they deliver Hidden Sentence training and awareness sessions to professionals from health, local authorities, education, criminal justice and the voluntary sector.

So far over 5000 professionals across the north east have received the full Hidden Sentence training or awareness sessions including police, probation, local authority, education, health staff and community/voluntary workers.

They are delivering some FREE Hidden Sentence awareness training for Darlington Borough Council as follows:

  • Monday 15 September 2025 from 1.30-4.00pm
  • Tuesday 4 November 2025 from 9.30-12.00pm
  • Venue: - Tandem (Morton Park Business Training Centre)

This 2.5 hour awareness sessions is being held for professionals whose work in the community of Darlington Borough brings them into contact with families of prisoners, including health, education, local authority, police, probation or community/voluntary workers.

To book onto the training please e-mail workforce.trainingbookings@darlington.gov.uk with your name, organisation name & address and job role. 

For more information on this and other training at https://www.nepacs.co.uk/page/training

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Hidden Sentence awareness training - information flyer
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