As financial pressures continue to take their toll, practitioners are finding access to continuing professional development (CPD) increasingly challenging.
In its Early Years Workforce Strategy, published in April 2017, the Government makes a strong case for the benefits of CPD. The document also sets out the barriers: prohibitive costs, and lack of free CPD offered by local authorities. But the sector is unconvinced that the strategy does anything to combat those barriers.
‘The document gives a good analysis of the situation, but it is weak on strategic direction,’ says Michael Freeston, director of quality improvement at the Pre-school Learning Alliance (PLA). ‘A year on, there is still no operational plan to say this is what we are going to do and when.’
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