Continuous Professional Development
In the Sefton Early Years team, we believe in the importance of ‘Continuous Professional Development’ (CPD) and we offer bespoke professional development support to all our schools and settings. The support offer can vary depending on the type and needs of the setting. The Early Years Quality Team and Early Years SEND team work tirelessly to ensure ‘Education Excellence’ for all. We do this by:
- Supporting our settings and schools through annual quality visits or targeted SEND support;
- Offering a free ‘Early Years Health Check’ to schools in the Ofsted window or a ‘Teaching and Learning Audit’ to schools that are not in the Ofsted window;
- Offering a free Early Years SEND Health Check.'
- Offering a bespoke package to schools that are requesting additional support;
- Delivering staff training sessions to EY teams and deliver EY Leads training termly;
- Offering a wide range of free CPD to support SEND in the EY;
- Leading projects that support our children of today;
- Working with other professionals and partners to ensure high quality CPD.
- Hosting a range of professional conferences each year with esteemed guest speakers, for e.g. Dr Julie Fisher and Professor Ferre Laevers.
Other Opportunities
Experts and Mentors Programme
The programme offers early years support, delivered either face to face or virtually, by trained experts and mentors to:
- early years practitioners
- leaders
- whole settings
Please visit Early years experts and mentors programme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) for more information.
Stronger Practice Hubs
Liverpool City Region and Beyond Hub is led by an experienced headteacher and experienced colleagues working within outstanding early years settings. The Hub aims to:
- establish local networks of early years educators to share early years knowledge and effective practice across the Liverpool City Region and Beyond
- act as a point of contact for early years curricular information
- signpost to early years funded support programmes
- link with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to promote the Early Years Evidence Store, Early Years Toolkit and select evidence-based programmes to fund and make available to early years settings
- to provide information on evidence-based approaches and share via social media, website, newsletters and blogs
Please visit About the Hub | Stronger Practice Hubs for more information.