Early Years training

The Early Years team at the Council offer a range of training to support early years settings as well as schools who provide early years support to children aged 0 to 4 years. 

For more information about our CPD booking system, see:

• Training, conferences and Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

The Early Years Team have developed a range of webcasts that can be accessed for your whole setting (only one license needs to be purchased). These can be booked like a normal training course and you will receive a confirmation email with links to watch the webcast. You can access the webcast as many times as required – there is no limit. Find details of the webcasts below and links to book.

Supporting behaviour through positive communication

The requirement to ‘manage children’s behaviour’ can be argued as not conductive to raising confident, emotionally resilient children. It denotes an image of containing behaviours, of fighting fire rather than looking for the cause. It is therefore time to reframe our thinking, to move away from an authoritative stance and embrace behaviour as an opportunity to teach and empower children to learn through experience.

Find out more about this course on the CPD site:

• Supporting behaviour through positive communication

EYFS Teaching and Learning webcast series

The EYFS teaching and learning webcast series is designed to gain an understanding of the requirements we must meet as registered childcare providers for children aged birth to five, and is made up of four episodes:

1. The Principles of the EYFS
2. The Characteristics of Effective Learning
3. The Characteristics of Effective Teaching
4. The Observation, assessment, planning cycle

Audience: Nurseries and Pre-Schools and those working with 0 to 4’s in schools, those new to the sector or for more established practitioners it has been designed to prompt reflection and discussion within your teams.

Find out more about this course on the CPD site:

• EYFS Teaching and Learning webcast series 

Low level concerns

The video below explores how adopting low level concerns into your safeguarding practice can help to build a safeguarding culture to be proud of.

Level 2 Early years Safeguarding training

Safeguarding is everybody’s responsibility, and the early years and childcare team are delighted to offer face to face, in house training on a date and time to suit your and your staff.

This 2.5 hour course is designed to bring teams together to reflect on current practice and remind ourselves of our safeguarding duties.

To support delegates and settings, this in house course does not use a formal presentation. We instead use a mixture of professional discussion and practical activities to explore how we can meet the requirements of the EYFS through the following topics:

• our responsibilities to Safeguard Children
• raising our awareness of Safeguarding threats
• recognising the signs and symptoms of abuse
• consider contextualised safeguarding
• understand how to handle a disclosure of abuse

Cost: £300 + VAT for a maximum of 25 staff

Settings can choose to share their in house course with another local setting. If they do this then the responsibility to charge the other attending setting lies with the setting hosting the training

How an in-house training course is organised:

• arrange a date and time which has been agreed with your trainer.
• the training team will organise a contract to secure the work
• once the contract is signed and invoice is requested or course is loaded into CPD
• on receipt of the returned register by the trainer CPD will be updated to reflect who attended and certificates issued

Contact

For more details, contact: workforcesupport@worcestershire.gov.uk