These one day courses are particularly useful for those seeking integrated courses and can be tailored to groups drawn from all sectors of early years services: education, health or social services, and across a range of providers: private, community, voluntary and maintained, and might include child minders, parents, managers, advisers, support staff and practitioners up to a maximum of 25 participants. They are usually delivered at a venue arranged by the contractor but may be delivered at CREC's training rooms in Birmingham if required.

All one day courses cost £3000 and include tutor(s) fees & materials (exclusive of VAT) which would equate to only £120 per delegate if the maximum cohort attended. If travel and tutor accommodation and subsistence are necessary these will be additional charges.

Courses can be delivered as one off or in clusters. If academic accreditation is required, it can be negotiated but will carry additional costs.

Below is a list of one day courses delivered by APT in the UK in last 12 months. Other courses can be negotiated and tailored to individual need.

More substantial two and three day courses and programmes, including EEL, BEEL & AcE, are available.

One Day Courses

1. Children's Centre/Extended Schools One Day Visioning Event

Aims of Course:

• To identify the key requirements of Children's Centre/Extended Schools withing the new legal framework for children's services;
• To increase awareness of th organisational, professional and personal demands involved in developing, leading and managing multi-professional organisations;
• To identify key organisational challenges of developing integrated services and develop a strategy for managing organisational change.

2. Leading Organisational Change Intelligently

Aims of Course: 

• To identify and understand the nature of organisational change;
• To increase awareness of the organisational, professional and personal demands involved in leading a change agenda;
• To identify a range of strategies and tools that can support change management.
  

3. Emotionally Intelligent Leadership of Integrated Centres for Children and Families

Aims of Course:

• To identify the qualities and characteristics of emotionally and professionally intelligent leadership during a time of organisational change;
• To increase awareness of the organisational, professional and personal demands involved in developing, leading and managing multi-professional organisations;
• To identify a range of strategies for dealing with the inter and intra personal world of leadership.
  

4. Engaging the Most Excluded: Developing Inclusive Children's Centre Services

Aims of Course:

• To highlight new statutory requirements aiming to 'close the gap' in the achievement of vulnerable children;
• To explore the diversity of the 'most excluded' populations and how to 'tune into' their needs more effectively;
• To consider ways of establishing contact with these groups and the role or outreach workers on this process;
• To evaluate current policy and practice in Children's Centres to assess where barriers to access and inclusion might exist and explore how these might be removed;
• To explore how outcomes might be improved for all children.

5. Performance Management in Children's Centres

Aims of Course:

• To enhance knowledge and understanding of Performace Management in Children's Centres;
• To unbundle the Children's Centres Performance Indicators and explore additional data collection methods;
• To map the SEF requirements;
• To develop a PM system for a CC: Mapping roles, responsibilities and timetable.
  

6. Evaluating Performance in Children's Centres

Aims of Course:

• To enhance the understanding of the purposes and principles of evaluation;
• To explore the completion of a SEF: First hand experience;
• To enhance the capacity to tune into the voices of the disengaged;
• To develop the capacity to undertake a Parental Satisfaction Survey;
• To practice the construction of case studies of service functioning and impact.
  

7. Establishing and Leading Multi-Agency Teams

Aims of Course:

• To enhance understanding of multi-agency team working;
• To explore multi-agency identites, cultures and heritages;
• To explore multi-agency team building;
• To understand and explore the puzzles and knotty problems in leading Multi-Agency Teams.
  

8. Assessing Outcomes in Young Children: The AcE Scale (Taster)

This is a preliminary taster course for those who are considering undertaking the full three day AcE Programme

Aims of Course:

• To discuss the legal framework surrounding the new outcomes duty;
• To consider ways of systematically and rigorously developing evidence on children's development and well-being;
• To explore a methodology (the AcE Scale) for providing rigorous evidence of outcomes for children.

9. Assessing Quality Services in Children's Centres

Aims of Course:

• To understand the importance and impact of high quality services on children and families;
• To explore what 'quality' is and how it may be defined in Children's Centres;
• To identify key indicators of quality services;
• To explore strategies to assess and evaluate quality in Children's Centre services;
• To identify key organisational challenges faced by leaders of integrated services for creating quality services and develop a strategy for improving the quality of service delivery.

10. Establishing Effective Supervision in Children's Centres

Aims of Course:

• To identify and understand the nature of effective suervision in Children's Centres;
• To explore supervision policies and supervision contracts;
• To explore the range of skills and competencies for effective supervisors. 

11. Developing a Qualiy Improvement Strategy

Aims of Course:

• To clarify how Quality Improvement Programmes (QIPs) have developed and how they sit within current Government policy aimed to enhance quality in Children's Centres;
•  To explore the benefits of engaging in a QIP;
• To set out how the new style QIPs will work in relation to registratiopn and inspection processes;
• To identify key features and processes of engaging in an effective QIP;
• To consider the organisational, resourcing and management issues of implementing a QIP;
• To consider the range of QIPs which are currently available within the sector.

12. (Baby) Effective Early Learning: Evaluating and Improving Children's Services (Taster)

This is a preliminary taster course for those considering undertaking the full three day BEEL and EEL self evaluation programmes.

Aims of Course:

• To understand the importance and impact of high qua;ity services on children and families;
• To explore what 'quality' is and how it may be identified in Children's Centres;
  
• To identify key indicators of quality services;
• To explore strategies to assess and evaluatequality in Children's Centre services;
• To identify key organisational challenges faced by leaders of integrated services for creating quality services and develop a strategy for improving the quality of service delivery.

13. Working Collaboratively and Respectfully with Children and Parents

Aims of Course:

• To identify a new legal framework of partnership with children and families and explore its ethical and political implications;
• To explore ideas of citizenship and democracyin Children's Centres;
• To increase awareness of the professional and personal demands involved in working within a framework of participatory democracy;
• To engage with other leaders ina critical analysis of experiences and approaches to working with children and families;
• To identify key organisational challenegs faced by leaders of integrated services for creatin active and participatory partnerships and develop a strategy for managing organisational change to achieve this.