Nursery World - To the Point - LA support is vital

On three occasions in recent weeks, in far-flung counties, I have been thrilled to hear practitioners presenting passionately to a group of their peers their own learning journeys, and the impact on the children and families they support.

They discussed developments in their settings, how they managed to spark change with their staff members, and what was ahead. In some cases the individual who spoke with such knowledge and confidence had started out months before showing reluctance to say anything, uncertain about her own skills as a professional.

This kind of deep learning doesn't come from a single training day. Each of these events followed a lengthy programme of training inputs, gap tasks, individual action planning, group reflection, and ongoing support from the local authority early years team which organised the programmes, targeting settings most likely to benefit, and visiting them between meetings.

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