Contacting us
Enquiries, compliments and complaints
- If you have any queries, complaints or compliments about the hertsdirect.org website and/or content, you may use the Contact us link to find our online Contact Form, full postal address and telephone numbers for various services that HCC provide.
There is a link on this page entitled 'how to complain' which outlines our complaints procedure in detail.
- There is a link for people to email their named Case Worker, or for foster parents to contact their foster child's social worker from this page, using an online contact form.
- For people with appointments to visit our main County Council office bases: County Hall, New Barnfield, Mount Pleasant, and Wheathampstead, you can find printer friendly maps and directions too.
- For out of office hours/emergencies concerning the welfare of an adult or a child, you can use the telephone numbers for Adult Care Services and Childrens, Schools and families from the 'Contact Us' page.
All other out of office hours/ emergency numbers can be found under the Emergencies header.
Emergencies
By selecting the
Emergencies header (located on the homepage and contact us page only), the following help is available:
- Emergency and out of office hours contact numbers for the Adult Care Services and Children, Schools and Families departments are listed.
- Full contact details for Fire stations, local Police Stations, Hospitals with Accident and Emergency units and local Hertfordshire Hospitals are all listed with advice as to when 999 should be called.
- Utility services Gas and Electricity have their emergency numbers listed, and the contact number for Floodline provides information about flooding.
- In the event of a major incident happening in Hertfordshire, or directly affecting Hertfordshire residents e.g. bomb, air, rail or road crash, helpline numbers and any other news announcements would appear under the Emergencies link.
Online services
- Quick online form access to our six most popular services can be made by selecting the relevant link shown on the homepage. These headings will change from time to time according to useage.
- For our entire range of online services you need to select the Online services header itself.
- The Online services header appears on every page of hertsdirect.org so the full range of services is available to you whenever you need to make use of one of the services.