Nursery World - Training Today: Continuing Professional Development

In these budget-straitened times, finding quality training for free and sharing it among colleagues are skills worth developing. But how do you cascade training effectively? Nicole Weinstein finds out

Gone are the days when settings were able to access free-of-charge or heavily subsidised training – and in some cases, money to cover the absent member of staff – from the local authority. Now, councils only have a statutory duty to support settings that ‘require improvement’ or are ‘inadequate’. The onus is on providers to fund their own training.

‘Settings are having to think creatively about how to provide staff with CPD in the wake of the changes,’ explains Sue Overton of Soap Media, who writes and produces films to facilitate training in the sector. ‘The impact to providers is becoming more and more apparent. Some councils are creating training hubs where providers have to pay training costs. It is quite worrying as there is such a squeeze financially already on the sector, and now the availability of training support is being restricted.’

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