Childcare.co.uk webinar training conforms to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) principles.

CPD principles emphasise principles of provider (employer) support, individual responsibility, relevance to practice, benefit to service users, improvement in quality-of-service delivery and balanced and diverse learning – all while being recorded and showing the effect on practice.

Provider Support

Childcare.co.uk has thousands of early years members and is the UK’s biggest membership group for childminders, nannies and nursery practitioners. Childcare.co.uk creates regular opportunities for freely available CPD.

Individual Responsibility

CPD Is the responsibility of the early years provider to access and engage with on a regular basis, to stay updated and to improve practice. Childcare.co.uk owns and manages Facebook groups for practitioners and regularly advertises courses, to remind them of their responsibilities.

Relevance to Practice

Childcare.co.uk CPD is delivered by practicing early years professionals and is highly relevant to provider’s ongoing childcare practice. Providers are regularly asked to contribute suggestions for further CPD, which are used when new courses are written.

Benefit to service users

Childcare.co.uk CPD is shown to benefit early years practitioners who report raised levels of confidence and improved Ofsted inspection outcomes as a result.

Improvement in Quality-of-Service Delivery

Early years providers regularly feedback that Childcare.co.uk provided CPD results in improvements in their professional practice – they gain new skills and adopt new working practices as a result.

Balanced and Diverse Learning

CPD provided by Childcare.co.uk includes a mixture of training courses including online webinars and face-to-face training sessions to provide formal and informal learning opportunities. All training links directly to practitioner’s work roles.

Record Keeping

During webinars, early years practitioners are advised to take notes and Childcare.co.uk gold members receive a comprehensive handout with their free course certificate. Training participants also have access to a free training log which they can use to record attended courses.

Evaluation

Early years practitioners are encouraged to evaluate the effectiveness of their training. Childcare.co.uk has provided evaluation sheets for them to use. A free annual CPD planning sheet encourages early years providers to identify and plan areas for future development.

Register for webinars

You can register for CPD webinars and watch previous webinars on our Webinar Player service where there are over 300 CPD training webinars.