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No time. No money. If schools continue to slash their spending on CPD it will only end badly for pupils, says Deborah Roberts

I recently met a colleague with whom I had worked in my first years of teaching.

We had both quickly acquired additional responsibilities and with this came expectation to attend training with a number of respected external providers.

Initially this conjured up very pleasant memories of being valued enough to be “allowed” out of school and given the opportunity to take on the challenges of new roles so early in our careers.

Though the school was challenging in many ways (and as a result did not find it easy to recruit staff) this glut of courses has a massive impact on our personal resources, including our time (which of course was already stretched to capacity).

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