Training & Development
CPD as a compliance clock rather than a course list — the programmes a school runs, the enrolment register that says who has actually done them, the invitation nobody accepted, the certificates with expiry dates, and the one figure a governing body asks for.
Nobody is ever asked what courses you run
They are asked whether the man supervising the swimming gallery has a current first-aid certificate, and whether the teacher who was alone with a child last Tuesday has done safeguarding this year. A training log cannot answer either, because a log records events and those are questions about people — and about dates that have quietly passed. This walkthrough follows CPD the way it is actually used: the programmes a school runs, the register of who is on each one, the invitation somebody never accepted, the certificate that lands on a personnel file with an expiry date attached, and the single percentage a governing body asks for at the end of the year. Every screen is the real application.
On this page
What the school runs
The catalogue, which is the easy half and the half every system has. It is worth one screen because of a distinction it makes that matters later: some of these programmes are professional development, and two of them are legal obligations with a clock attached.
The programme catalogue
What the school runs across a year, not a term: safeguarding and fire safety on the compliance side, first aid, and the teaching-and-learning programmes a school chooses to invest in. Every status the ladder has is on the page — completed, running, scheduled, and one still in draft — because a CPD plan is read as much for what is booked as for what is done.
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Every screen in “What the school runs” is the live product, not a mockup. Create your school account, or have us walk you through it on a call.
And who is actually on it
This is the register the page exists for. A programme with a 92% completion rate is a reassuring number that says nothing about the eleven people it does not cover — and one of them is always the person the question will eventually be about.
The enrolment register
One row per person per programme, with the state that person is actually in: invited, enrolled, in progress, completed, cancelled. The row worth the page is the one marked Invited — somebody who was put on the safeguarding course last September, never accepted, and has been teaching ever since. A completion percentage hides that person. A register does not.
The same rows, on one person’s file
A member of staff’s record with their CPD beside their qualifications and their employment history. It is the same endpoint the register reads, narrowed to one person — not a copy — which is what stops a file that says somebody has done safeguarding sitting under a register that says they have not.
See this on your own school’s data.
Every screen in “And who is actually on it” is the live product, not a mockup. Create your school account, or have us walk you through it on a call.
The certificate, and the date on it
A completed course is not the end of anything. It produces a certificate with an expiry date, and the expiry is the part somebody has to act on twelve months later — which is precisely the part that lives in a filing cabinet at every school that has ever been caught out by it.
The certificate register
Every document the school holds on its staff — safeguarding and first-aid certificates, teaching licences, background checks, right-to-work papers — with a verification state and an expiry date. Three of these expire within the month, all from the same safeguarding course and all a fortnight before the programme that renews them runs; one has already lapsed on somebody who is still teaching. Those are figures on the row rather than discoveries.
And the one figure a governing body asks for
The HR overview, where training compliance is a band rather than a module somebody has to remember to open: what proportion of staff have completed each obligation. A head of school reads this without ever entering the training pages, which is the whole point — the number has to be in the way.
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Every screen in “The certificate, and the date on it” is the live product, not a mockup. Create your school account, or have us walk you through it on a call.
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