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Training Today: Continuing Professional Development - Love to learn

The very best continuing professional development should be nothing less than 'transformational'. Karen Faux reports on the approaches that make a difference.

With a soaring birth rate and the ramping up of free nursery entitlement, practitioners can justifiably feel that their skills and expertise will have a real impact on the next generation.

Having bedded in the revised EYFS and got to grips with changes to the Ofsted inspection framework, the sector seems to have a pretty clear idea of where its continuing professional development (CPD) priorities lie.

To meet these CPD objectives there is a dynamic and ever-expanding independent training sector, which is focused on finding new ways to deliver - creatively and cost-effectively.

So what are the CPD priorities?

UNDERSTANDING CHANGE

At Lifetime Training, business manager Alison Simpson reports demand for short, cost-effective courses in areas such as paediatric first aid, parent partnerships and SENCO working. There is also a continuing emphasis on child-led practice, developing language and communication skills,and boosting physical development.

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