Continuing professional development
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The Alliance has a wide range of short courses and workshops that can provide for specific and wider professional learning needs such as curriculum development, business management and engagement with parents and volunteers.
Our experienced and knowledgeable training and learning staff can offer programmes from our bank of existing courses and workshops. They can also customise training to meet needs identified by childcare staff, employers, local authority early years teams, children's centres and Sure Start projects.
Further information on training
You can download PDF files with further information about the courses below.
- Business and Management
- Behind the scenes
- Working with parents
- Early Years Foundation Stage
- Helping settings prepare for the Early Years Foundation Stage
- Children from Birth to Five
- Developing good practice for two year olds in mixed age settings
- Working with parents
- Working with parents
- Childhood nutrition
- Promoting healthy eating in early years settings
- Inclusion
- Promoting equality of opportunity
- Equality and diversity: principles into practice
- Equality of opportunity: policies into practice
- Improving disabled access in early years settings
- Special educational needs: a briefing for everyone
- Workshops on the special educational needs code of practice
- The fundamentals of putting children first
- Special educational needs and disabilities: the fundamentals of inclusive practice
- Special educational needs and disabilities: working with parents
- Inclusive practice: supporting children with physical impairments in early years settings
- Inclusive practice: supporting children with sensory impairments
- Inclusive practice: equipment and resources for children with impairments in early years settings
- Inclusive practice: supporting working with other professionals
- Behaviour
- Promoting positive behaviour
- Family Learning
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- Workshops and short courses for parents and carers:
- Storysacks: Enjoying books and reading
- Jump start: Joint activities
- Looking at learning together: Supporting children's learning
- Shadow puppets: Exploring music, movement, drama, puppetry and stories
- Parents and carers matter: from birth to three
- Hand in hand: Developing independence for you and your child
- Courses for tutors and facilitators:
- Facilitating family learning
- Courses for early years staff:
- Making links with parents and the community
- Training to teach adults
- Building confidence
- Principles of good practice in adult education
Next steps
If you want to find out more about our training courses and where they are currently being held, send an email to Information Services