The early years industry places a great deal of emphasis on Continuous Professional Development and with ongoing developments in childcare frameworks it is more important than ever to keep knowledge and skills updated.
How easy is it however to do this? Todays current economic climate means funding is almost non-existent for training courses and courses that are available are not always tailored for childminders in content, time availablility or cost.
Here at ECM we would like to gauge an idea of what types of training course you would like to have access to as childminders. Please fill in the form below to submit your responses, they are annonymous.
These are only a selection of the hundreds of topics relating to childcare and childminding please add any additional ideas to the end of the form.
I need to do 20 hours CPD a year as an accredited childminder – however finding courses to do is very hard. I would like to do e-learning with courses similar to those run by the OU in their free open learning area. The problem being there is no proof I have done them so they are not acceptable to my Network!!! I have looked in vain for short e-courses. Have you any ideas?