This document discusses continuing professional development (CPD) for early childhood educators. It defines CPD as continuing to learn through activities like higher education programs, training courses, employment experience, and self-reflection. The document emphasizes staying up to date on legislation, frameworks, and research impacting early childhood care and education. It provides examples of improving one's own practice through reflection, peer feedback, observation, networking and visiting other settings. The importance of staff qualifications, training and skills is highlighted in meeting children's wellbeing, learning and development needs according to inspection standards. Fundamental British values are presented as an example topic for CPD. Finally, resources for undertaking CPD are listed.

1. Unit 13: Reflective practice for
professional development
CACHE L3 Diploma in Childcare & Education – EYE
Session 1

2. CPD
What is CPD?
Continuing Professional Development

3. CPD
 Professional development in terms of continuing to learn.
 Staying up to date with legislation and research.
 Constantly seeking ways to improve own practice.

4. How may you
continue to
learn?
 University
 Foundation Degrees
 Higher level apprenticeships.
 Gaining employment in the sector.
 Attending in house and external training
courses.

5. Legislation &
Frameworks
 What do you need to know?
 Health and Safety
 Frameworks
 Inspections – Common Inspection Framework (CIF)
 Safeguarding
 Employment law – rights and responsibilities
 Funding – free early years education

6. Improving
own practise
 How can you improve your own practise?
 Reflection
 Feedback from other team members – peer assessment
 Observation by senior staff
 Appraisal
 Work shadowing
 Conferences
 Networking
 Visiting other settings

8. EYFS
Welfare
Requirements
.
Staff qualifications,
training, support
and skills
 3.20. The daily experience of children in early years settings
and the overall quality of provision depends on all
practitioners having appropriate qualifications, training, skills
and knowledge and a clear understanding of their roles and
responsibilities.
 Providers must support staff to undertake appropriate training
and professional development opportunities to ensure they
offer quality learning and development experiences for
children that continually improves.

9. CIF
 91. Inspectors will ask for evidence to evaluate the
effectiveness of staff supervision, performance management,
training and continuing professional development, and the
impact of these on children’s well-being, learning and
development.

10. Todays CPD
 Fundamental British Values
 Democracy
 Rule of law
 Individual liberty
 Mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths
and beliefs
 Embedded in the 2014 Early Years Foundation Stage.
 http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/2015/03/fundamental-
british-values-in-the-early-years/

11. Resources for
CPD
 Herts for learning
 http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/edlearn/css/
 Gov.uk
 Nursery World
 http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/
 National Day Nurseries Association
 http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/
 Foundation Years
 http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/