All Hertfordshire County Council in-house day services will remain open during the new national restrictions. However, capacity is reduced due to social distancing measures.
Contact your usual day service if you have any queries.
How we're keeping day services Coronavirus secure
All our register offices are open for pre-booked appointments only.
All of our register offices are still open for pre-booked appointments only.
- You must wear a face covering in any register office.
- To make an appointment to register a birth please book online.
We are still only registering deaths by phone. Call 0300 123 4045 between 9am and 4.30pm. Our busy period is 12–2pm.
Funerals during the coronavirus pandemic.
The coroner service will be running as normal and inquests will be going ahead.
You can apply online for copies of death certificates or birth certificates.
We've suspended our historical certificate service (including marriage certificates) until further notice. We'll regularly review this decision.
Weddings and civil partnership ceremonies can take place with no more than 6 attendees (excluding anyone working at the ceremony).
Where possible, these should only take place in exceptional circumstances - for example, an urgent marriage where someone getting married is seriously ill and not expected to recover, or is to undergo debilitating treatment or life-changing surgery.
We are not taking any new ceremony bookings until further notice. We'll regularly review that decision.
We're currently only able to re-arrange cancelled ceremonies to take place from 6 April 2021. Again, we'll review this when government advice is updated.
For ceremony enquiries email registrars.admin@hertfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 123 4045.
Group and face-to-face private ceremonies are currently suspended.
You can book an online private citizenship ceremony - call 0300 123 4045.
The EU Settlement Scheme service is currently suspended until further notice.
Some local health and wellbeing services will be disrupted at the moment, including health visitors, school nurses, substance misuse, sexual health, mental health and stop smoking services.
Health Walks are suspended whilst we're in national lockdown. Once restrictions ease in Hertfordshire, safe walks will continue. www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/healthwalks
Herts Fire and Rescue Service is responding to all emergencies.
We are temporarily suspending general safe and well visits for operational crews. This is to reduce the chance of spreading the virus to firefighters and vulnerable groups.
However, there may be occasions when we'll visit an extremely high risk resident. We'll assess the risk based on the questions that are answered in the questionnaire. Any visits requested that aren't classed as extremely high risk will be arranged when it's safe to do so.