Continuing Professional Development
Invest in your professional learning with DfE approved programmes
Evidence-Informed CPD for Every Stage of Your School's Journey
At Vantage Teaching School Hub, we connect schools, colleges, and early years settings across North Humber to high-quality, DfE-funded professional development. Beyond our core ITT, Early Career, and NPQ frameworks, we signpost and facilitate access to national priority programmes designed to raise standards, improve pupil outcomes, and reduce workload.
Our CPD directory is structured around key national priorities, including the Best Start in Life early years initiative and the SEND and Inclusion national agenda. Explore the fully funded training packages, editable in-house toolkits, and specialist hub networks below to support your setting's improvement priorities.
Best Start in Life - Early Years
Early Years Child Development Training
- Overview: Free online training structured into 8 flexible modules covering brain development, personal/social/emotional development, communication and language, and supporting individual differences.
- Format: Self-paced online study (~2 hours per module) with practical video examples and downloadable certificates.
- Audience: Early years practitioners, childminders, teaching assistants, and reception staff.
- Cost: Free.
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Excellence in Reception Teaching
- Overview: A DfE-funded development course designed specifically for reception class teachers. Deepens reception-specific pedagogy, classroom practice, inclusive strategies, and partnership working to ensure more children reach a good level of development.
- Format & Duration: ~20 hours over two school terms; flexible self-study blended with live facilitated sessions.
- Audience: Current reception teachers and experienced teachers transitioning into reception.
- Cost: Fully DfE-funded for state-funded school settings.
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Early Years Inclusion Training (Dingley's Promise)
- Overview: Specialist online CPD designed to equip early years educators with the skills to foster inclusive learning environments and identify special educational needs early.
- Audience: All early years educators and practitioners working with children aged 0–4.
- Cost: Free.
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Additional Early Years Provision and Support
- EY Stronger Practice Hubs: Regional peer-to-peer networks providing evidence-based practice sharing for early years settings
- Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI): Targeted speech and language support for reception pupils.
- NDNA Maths Champions: High-quality professional development to build early numeracy skills across EY settings.
- Early Years Level 3 SENCO: Accredited training for early years practitioners leading SEN provision.
SEND & Inclusion
DfE SEND In-House Training Materials (Mainstream Schools)
- Overview: Free, editable training sessions developed by Ambition Institute and informed by EEF research. Designed for school leaders and SENCOs to deliver in-house via INSET days, staff meetings, or twilight sessions. Initial modules cover SEND reform, inclusive teaching principles, and speech, language, and communication development.
- Format: Downloadable presentation slides, facilitator notes, case studies, and reflection activities.
- Audience: School leaders, SENCOs, teachers, TAs, and support staff in mainstream schools (Reception to Key Stage 4).
- Cost: Free.
- Access Toolkit: SEND and inclusion training for mainstream schools - GOV.UK
- List of topics covered in SEND and inclusion in-house training: mainstream schools and post-16 settings - GOV.UK
DfE SEND In-House Training Materials (Post-16 Settings)
- Overview: Flexible, editable resources tailored for further education and post-16 institutions to build staff expertise in inclusive practice and meeting individual learner needs.
- Audience: Leaders, tutors, learning support assistants, and specialist staff in FE and post-16 settings.
- Cost: Free.
- Access Toolkit: SEND and inclusion training for post-16 settings - GOV.UK
- List of topics covered in SEND and inclusion in-house training: mainstream schools and post-16 settings - GOV.UK
nasen
- Overview: Online CPD units, webinars, and audit tools designed to develop workforce confidence and drive inclusive culture across all educational settings.
- Access Resources: Online Learning | Nasen
Behaviour and Attendance Hubs
- Overview: DfE-funded school-to-school support enabling schools with exemplary behaviour cultures to partner with schools looking to introduce sustainable behaviour frameworks.
- Access Network
Curriculum Hubs (English, Maths, Music)
- English Hubs: Evidence-informed training in early reading, systematic synthetic phonics (SSP), and fostering a love of reading.
- Maths Hubs: Funded Work Groups and professional development pathways focusing on Teaching for Mastery across primary and secondary phases.
- Music Hubs: Specialist subject knowledge enhancement and curriculum development support.
Further guidance can be found on the Goverment website.
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