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INTRODUCTION<br />

<strong>Early</strong> <strong>Years</strong> - Even More Exciting Times!<br />

We are delighted to bring you the new <strong>Core</strong> and Continuing Professional Development<br />

(CPD) <strong>Directory</strong> for <strong>Early</strong> Education and Childcare – a catalogue full of core learning<br />

and development opportunities across a wide variety of subjects and a portfolio of<br />

modes of learning – please see pages 8 and 9 for the full matrix and index of courses.<br />

New - JVCo<br />

At the time of going to press and distribution, we are excited to confirm we are in the<br />

structure of the new Joint Venture Company or JVCo, so over the coming months our<br />

new identity will emerge and contacts details will be updated.<br />

New - Webpages<br />

Have you seen our new webpages?<br />

http://education.staffordshire.gov.uk/Curriculum/Strategies/<strong>Early</strong><strong>Years</strong>/creativeworkforce/<br />

An electronic version of this catalogue can be found in the Workforce Development<br />

section - please see 3 rd item listed in the menu on the left hand side of the screen.<br />

Top Tip! You might find it easier to open the electronic version to click on the following<br />

links rather than copying them<br />

News – Workforce Development Team<br />

I’m sure you’ll want to wish Carol Drakeford a “welcome back” - we’ve all missed her!<br />

Grateful thanks to colleagues for covering during her absence. Thank you.<br />

Webinars have proved so popular, we are increasing our team of webinar hosts to meet<br />

capacity demands – I’m sure you’ll all welcome Julie and Wendy to the team.<br />

Already in this academic year, eg Sept – Dec 2012, we’ve hosted 31 early years<br />

webinars, with 530 participants, 99% of whom rank the quality consistently at<br />

Excellent/Good.<br />

New - The Government’s response to Nutbrown – “More Great Childcare” published<br />

on 29 th January 2013. Please see link below for the full publication<br />

https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/DFE-<br />

00002-2013<br />

AND the <strong>Early</strong> Education and Staff Deployment Consultation which closes 25.3.13.<br />

http://www.education.gov.uk/aboutdfe/departmentalinformation/consultations/a0022096<br />

6/early-educ-childcare-staff-deploy<br />

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