Continuing professional development (CPD) is the planned, ongoing development of knowledge and skills throughout an early years professional’s working life.
Above all, CPD ensures that you and your team continue to deliver high-quality childcare that directly benefits the children, but there are many other advantages, including:
Under the Education Inspection Framework, rather than just checking how many staff members have attended specific training, inspectors gather evidence of the effectiveness of a setting’s CPD and the impact that it has on children’s well-being, learning and development.
For CPD to be effective, leaders and managers need to actively develop a learning culture within the setting. ‘CPD is much broader than “just going on a training course” – it should reflect an ongoing cycle of maintaining and developing our professional knowledge and skills: a process rather than an event,’ says Sandra Mathers, senior researcher at the University of Oxford and expert in early years pedagogy and professional development.
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