Nursery World - Training Today: Continuing Professional Development

With local authority training increasingly scarce, and policy
changes leading to new CPD priorities, Meredith Jones Russell looks at
how early years providers are responding.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is particularly important in the early years sector, where livelihoods depend on knowledge of current laws and practices. Now, reductions in Government funding are causing a shift from public to private sector provision.

The number of local authority specialist advisers for early years services has been cut by more than half in some areas in England, as Nursery World reported in May. These advisers are there to ensure early education settings are able to access the support of an experienced early years leader, with functions ranging from helping to prepare for Ofsted inspections to the fine detail of helping nurseries use their resources effectively.

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