Online training

The Alliance delivers a range of CPD-accredited online training opportunities, tailored for those working in the early years sector, whatever your style of learning.

Marketing your early years business

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Marketing helps you better understand and anticipate your customer needs. It gives you expertise and the right tools to adapt quickly to a changing market and ensures your early years business competes successfully.

Turning point? report

Read our comprehensive report on shining a light on the recruitment and retention challenges facing the early years sector, published in November 2024.

Inclusive practice training package

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A comprehensive CPD package which brings together a range of Alliance training resources – from Virtual Classrooms to Insights, Alliance publications to Toolkits – each with a focus around an element of inclusive early years practice.

Supporting refugee families

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Welcoming refugee families into your setting, not only offers them a chance to start their early education but it also offers them much-needed stability and a sense of community after an incredibly difficult experience.

British values

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The government has set out the need for ‘British values’ to help everyone live in safe and welcoming communities where they feel they belong.

SEND

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The Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice states that a child has special educational needs (SEND) if they ” have a learning difficulty which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her.”