Training & Professional Development Resources
Professional Training – Ready to Deliver in Your Setting
High-quality professional development should do more than provide information. It should encourage practitioners to think, question, discuss and consider what the learning means for their own practice.
I develop comprehensive early years training packages that enable leaders to deliver meaningful professional development within their own settings.
Each package is carefully researched and designed around a specific area of early years practice. Rather than simply providing a PowerPoint presentation, the resources give leaders the structure, professional content and supporting materials they need to facilitate confident, engaging team development.
Bespoke Training Packages
Designed Around the Needs of Your Team
Every setting is different.
There may be an aspect of practice you want to strengthen, a new area of guidance your team needs to understand, an issue identified through supervision or self-evaluation, or a particular priority for professional development.
I can develop a bespoke training package specifically around the needs of your setting or organisation.
Following discussion with you, I will develop a professionally structured training resource that reflects your identified priorities and enables your leaders to deliver the learning directly to their team.
This provides a flexible and cost-effective way to access specialist early years expertise while retaining the important role of your own leaders in developing their practitioners.
What Can a Training Package Include?
Depending on the subject and your requirements, a bespoke package may include:
- a professionally designed presentation
- comprehensive facilitator or speaker notes
- clear learning aims and outcomes
- current statutory and professional guidance
- evidence-informed professional content
- case studies and practice scenarios
- questions for team discussion
- reflective activities
- practical exercises
- downloadable handouts and supporting resources
- leadership prompts
- opportunities to consider implications for your own setting
- suggested actions and next steps.
The result is not simply a presentation to show your team. It is a structured professional development experience that your leaders are equipped to deliver.
Training That Connects With Practice
My training resources can be developed across a wide range of early years subjects, including:
Safeguarding & Child Protection
Professional curiosity, safeguarding culture, recognising and responding to concerns, safer working practice and leadership responsibilities.
Curriculum, Pedagogy & Continuous Provision
Developing ambitious and inclusive curriculum thinking and understanding how environments, interactions and continuous provision support children’s learning.
Leadership & Professional Practice
Professional courage, difficult conversations, supervision, accountability, team development and leading improvement.
Safer Sleep & Infant Care
Strengthening practitioner knowledge and supporting consistently safe, evidence-informed practice.
Inclusion & Children’s Experiences
Supporting leaders and teams to reflect on inclusive practice, individual needs, belonging and children’s lived experiences.
Other subjects can be developed following discussion about the particular needs of your team.
Free Safeguarding Resources
Supporting Safeguarding Knowledge Across the Sector
Alongside my professional publications and training packages, I provide a collection of free short safeguarding presentations and resources for early years practitioners and leaders.
These concise resources focus on specific safeguarding issues and are designed to support discussion, refresh knowledge and provide accessible professional development.
I regularly review and update these resources to reflect current statutory guidance and emerging safeguarding issues.
Why Choose a Ready-to-Deliver Training Package?
Commissioning external training is not always practical or affordable.
A professionally developed training package enables you to bring high-quality professional development into your setting while allowing your own leaders to facilitate discussion, connect the learning with your provision and revisit important areas over time.
It can support:
Staff meetings • INSET and training days • Team development • Leadership meetings • Supervision • Induction • Refresher training • Ongoing CPD
Most importantly, the learning stays within your setting and can become part of your wider approach to professional development.
Looking for Something Specific?
If there is an area of practice your team needs to explore, I would be delighted to discuss how a bespoke professional development package could support you.