The Strategic Commissioning Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme provides opportunities to gain further skills, knowledge and experience to enable the cultural sector to deliver quality programmes for children and young people.
A range of CPD training and networking activities are on offer to museum and archive educators, as well as other cultural sector and children and young people's sector professionals, to strengthen the role of museums, galleries and archives in the delivery of the Children's Agenda. Participation in these activities has been subsidised through the Strategic Commissioning Programme, and many are offered free or at a greatly reduced cost.
The CPD programme has been framed around the Common Core Framework of Skills, developed in consultation with the Children's Workforce & Development Council, to support the development of key skills for sector staff working with children and young people.
For general enquiries about the CPD programme, contact: cpd@mla.gov.uk .
Develop your core skills
Free training opportunities - September 2010
A series of funded half-day / twilight training sessions and 50-minute advice surgeries are taking place across the North, East, West and London areas of England to support the development of core skills for the sector based on the Common Core Framework of Skills.
Book a place on up to three training activities per day.
Click for information - Inspiring Learning for All (ILFA) - Leadership- Teaching Outside the Classroom (TOTC)
Click for information - Safeguarding advice surgeries
Literacy-focused training opportunities - October 2010 onwards
Museum and archives are helping children and young people to develop literacy skills with inspiration from their collections. A series of exciting training offers from the National Literacy Trust, British Library and other key organisations will take place between October 2010 and January 2011, supported by the MLA Strategic Commissioning CPD programme.
Click for information - Education development: literacy and literature
See below for other CPD programme activities.