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Times are tight, but schools that cut CPD for support staff are missing a huge trick, says Jon Richards

As school finances tighten, the Department for Education (DfE) is to be renamed the Department for Saving Money.

Ploughing through the volume of toolkits, benchmarking guides, metric tools, webinars and stilted YouTube presentations on the need to ensure efficiency (i.e. which staff to sack) does nothing to lessen managers’ workloads.

Training budgets have already taken a hit, with CPD squeezed and schools trying to work out what to do with the money being siphoned off into the Apprenticeship Levy.

Most schools will have seen the Standard for Teachers’ Professional Development (DfE, July 2016) and are using it to invest in the development of their teachers.

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