Training with Hampshire Registration
Maximise your team’s potential with Hampshire Registration Service’s training. Our comprehensive training programme has been tailored for registration officers across England and Wales. This means our expert team can provide your staff with the opportunity to develop their skills with confidence.
Training is at the heart of what we do in Hampshire Registration Service. Our goal is to help take the pressure off by providing your service with quality training across all registration services, both statutory and non-statutory.
Comprehensive courses
These courses give Registration Service staff access to everything they need to carry out their statutory duties with accuracy and confidence.
Staff will feel valued as they develop their knowledge and skills via e-learning, observations, and classroom-based or virtual classroom learning.
Notice of marriage and civil partnership training (4 days)
This training teaches the Deputy Superintendent Registrar to take legal and accurate notices of marriage and notices of civil partnership.
The training covers:
- preliminaries to a marriage
- types of notices
- places of marriage – civil and religious
- acceptable documentary evidence
- relevant national - digital checking for EUSS status/pending status
- attesting a notice
- name change
- conditions
- prohibited degrees of relationship
- sham and forced marriages
- reduction in the 28-day waiting period (waivers)
- housebound and detained notices
- Registrar General’s Licence (RGL)
- marriages not in England or Wales
- objections and caveats
- forms
Packages will be tailored to your specific training needs.
Additional notice of marriage and civil partnership for those subject to immigration control (1 day)
This optional module builds on the learning already developed through notice training. It includes topics such as:
- checking EUSS status (revisit)
- sham and forced partnerships
- documentary evidence required
- immigration evidence – permits/visas/endorsements
- attesting a notice – when to use a Form 48 or Form 49
- photo templates
- referral to the Home Office – 28-day or 70-day waiting time
- Section 24 process
Packages will be tailored to your specific training needs.
Bitesize training
Looking for a quick way to give your staff the knowledge and tools for day-to-day registrations? We have created 1 day courses for birth and death registrations and for taking marriage and civil partnership notices, that cover all the basics your team will need. This training can all be delivered on Microsoft Teams, either for individual staff, or as a suite of training for new employees.
Birth registration training (1 day)
Includes training on completing birth register entries for:
- child of marriage
- joint registration (parents are both present, but unmarried)
- single status (parents are not married, only mother is present)
- parental responsibility for unmarried opposite sex parents
- statistical information collected
- twins
Training can be tailored to your requirements.
Death registration training (1 day)
This training includes topics such as:
- what you need to register a death
- who can act as a qualified informant
- acceptable MCCD (Medical Certificate of Cause of Death) or Coroner's paperwork
- when the death took place in your district
Training can be tailored to your requirements.
Notice training (1 day)
This training covers taking notices for marriages and civil partnerships:
- where both are relevant nationals
- where both are single
- previous marriage dissolved - UK divorce only
- previous marriage ended - death of a spouse
- change of name
- prescribed evidence
- sham / forced / predatory awareness
- place of marriage:
- Register Office
- Registration Office
- approved premises
Training can be tailored to your requirements.