Training and support programme
Find out about training and networking opportunities to support continued professional development.
Our courses are designed to support settings caring for children aged from birth to 5 years and providers who offer wraparound care and holiday club provision including:
- nurseries
- pre-schools
- childminders
- maintained nursery schools
- before and after school clubs and holiday playschemes
- schools delivering the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
- wraparound care providers and holiday playschemes
Refer to the documents below for details of our training programme:
- Early Years training brochure (PDF, 3.1MB) - Full overview of our face-to-face courses and webinars, including dates, times and venues, as well as information on how to book and cancel places.
- Early Years and childcare course calendar (Excel, 30KB) - A list of our face-to-face courses and webinars in Excel format that you can filter by date and location.
- Early years and childcare network brochure (PDF, 583KB) - We offer free network events throughout the year. These events are available to any setting; nurseries, preschools, schools and childminders working within West Sussex.
Bookings
Early Years and childcare training courses and network events are available to book through West Sussex Services for Education, see the brochure for booking details. Courses are available as either webinars or face-to-face.
The course confirmation email will include a venue or webinar joining link and the pre-course task (if required). It will be sent immediately after you book a place and again as a reminder before the course runs.
You should check your junk/spam folder as the email may be filtered there. Open this email on a tablet or computer rather than a phone, as the links/materials are not always visible on a phone. If you do not receive the email, contact early.years.training@westsussex.gov.uk.
Pre-course tasks, such as reading or collecting items from the setting to bring to the session, are compulsory and must be completed before the course to gain a certificate of completion. Details are available in the course description on West Sussex Services for Education.
If you are booking a place for a colleague, ensure that you inform them of any pre-course task requirements.
Self-led online training courses
We offer a variety of online, self-led training to enable learners to access courses at any time to suit their working patterns. We offer 2 routes to access eLearning:
- West Sussex early years and childcare support eLearning courses - created by our in-house experts. These courses are free, and available to take as many times as you need and accessed via the Learning Pool.
- West Sussex online training (National Day Nursery Association) - self-led courses available at a subsidised cost of £10 per place.
Course details and booking instructions:
Contact us if you have any queries:
- Email: early.years.training@westsussex.gov.uk
- Phone: 033 022 25904 or 033 022 28584
- Address: Education, Business and Communications Team, Room 237 County Hall, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1RG