CPD Planning and Preparation Pack

🎒Updated for 2026, this CPD Planning and Preparation Pack supports headteachers, deputies and CPD leads to plan, deliver and evaluate a coherent staff development programme across the full school year.

Alongside the ready-to-use editable templates, the accompanying PDF guidance walks you through exploring staff training needs, building a CPD cycle, supporting ECTs through statutory induction and avoiding the common pitfalls that lead to disjointed or ineffective CPD. Whether you're starting from scratch or refining an existing offer, this pack gives you the structure and thinking space to plan effective CPD to meet the needs of your staff and pupils.

You'll get:

☑️ Needs exploration tools – pre-populated skills audits and surveys to identify priorities and career aspirations across your whole team
☑️ Planning and delivery documents – audits, action plans, coaching logs and strategic planning documents to structure your year
☑️ Evaluation and follow-up resources – CPD self-evaluation, participation evaluation and feedback surveys to measure real impact

All templates are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

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What's in this CPD Planning and Preparation Pack?

This pack provides a complete toolkit for exploring, planning, delivering and evaluating staff CPD throughout the academic year, alongside a detailed guidance document that supports your thinking at every stage.

You'll get:

☑️ CPD Planning and Preparation Guidance – A 29-page guide covering exploring CPD needs, planning and preparation, ITTECF, NPQs and statutory induction, and avoiding common CPD pitfalls, with reflective checkpoints throughout to support your thinking as you go.

☑️ Staff Skills Audit and Skills Audit Summary – These two documents capture staff confidence and competence across key areas, with results feeding into a whole-school summary that shows where training is needed most and who has the expertise to lead it for others.

☑️ Developing Teaching Survey and Question Bank – This helps you gather the views of staff, pupils and governors on the quality of teaching and professional development, helping you identify gaps between how leaders perceive provision and how it's experienced by those on the receiving end.

☑️ Staff Career Development and Aspirations Survey – Ask staff to complete this to understand their individual career goals and ambitions so CPD opportunities can be linked to succession planning and long-term staff retention.

☑️ CPD Plan and Cycle – This helps you map out CPD priorities across the year, linking each area to the evidence gathered and to your school improvement planning.

☑️ CPD Budget Planner – Explore CPD expenditure across the year to support value-for-money conversations with your finance team and governing body.

☑️ Developing Teaching Audit, Action Plan and Document Checklist – These three documents work together to help you review your current professional development provision and identifies priorities and next steps for improving your offer for all staff.

☑️ CPD Delivery Self-Evaluation Form – Available in concise and detailed formats, these can be used to gather facilitator reflections immediately after a session has taken place.

☑️ CPD Participation Evaluation Form and CPD Feedback Survey – These two documents help you capture how staff experience the CPD, whether previous training has changed their practice and what they'd find useful going forward.

☑️ Early Career Teacher CPD and Support Tracker – This records statutory induction support for ECTs in line with the ITTECF and DfE statutory guidance, giving you a ready evidence record for Ofsted.

☑️ CPD Mentor Coaching Log – This helps you structures and record coaching and mentoring conversations with staff at any career stage.

☑️ Post-CPD Follow-Up Planner – Assign ownership and a clear timeline for embedding learning once a CPD session has taken place.

☑️ CPD Report to Governors – A ready-to-use report template with scrutiny questions built in, helping governors fulfil their oversight role with confidence.

All templates are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

Who should use this CPD Planning and Preparation Pack?

Headteachers, deputy and assistant headteachers and CPD leads will find this pack particularly valuable when building or refreshing their professional development offer for the year ahead, especially at the start of an academic year or when reviewing the impact of an existing CPD programme.

It's equally useful for SENDCos, subject leaders and pastoral leads who are responsible for coordinating CPD within their own area of remit, as well as school business managers managing CPD budgets and ECT mentors supporting statutory induction. For settings without a dedicated CPD coordinator, this pack is essential for bringing structure and consistency to what can otherwise become a fragmented, last-minute process.

How can this pack help school leaders deliver effective, well-evidenced CPD?

This comprehensive pack helps you tackle the most common challenges leaders face when planning and delivering staff CPD.

"How do I work out what CPD my staff actually need?"

Use the Staff Skills Audit alongside the Developing Teaching Survey and Question Bank to gather both self-assessed confidence and wider stakeholder views, then bring the findings together in the Skills Audit Summary to see your whole-school picture at a glance.

"How can I make sure CPD isn't just a tick-box exercise?"

The CPD Plan and Cycle links every priority back to evidence and school improvement planning, while the Post-CPD Follow-Up Planner ensures someone is responsible for embedding new learning long after the session ends.

"How do I evidence the impact of CPD, not just attendance?"

Combine the CPD Participation Evaluation Form and CPD Delivery Self-Evaluation Form for immediate feedback with the CPD Feedback Survey and Post-CPD Follow-Up Planner for longer-term impact, giving you a genuine evidence trail from need to outcome.

"How can I support my ECTs through statutory induction without it becoming a separate, bolted-on process?"

The Early Career Teacher CPD and Support Tracker provides a clear, ITTECF-aligned record of induction support, while the guidance shows how to integrate ECT development into your wider whole-school CPD priorities.

"How do I keep governors informed and confident in our CPD spend?"

The CPD Report to Governors and CPD Budget Planner give governors the evidence and scrutiny questions they need to understand whether CPD investment is well targeted and making a difference.

"How do I avoid overloading staff with CPD on top of an already heavy workload?"

The guidance dedicates a full section to staff well-being and workload, with practical advice on spacing CPD across the year and protecting time for staff to embed new learning.

Want to build on your staff development work?

If safeguarding or behaviour training forms part of your CPD offer, browse our Safeguarding Training resources, including Safeguarding Scenarios, Safeguarding Snapshots and Quick Quizzes for ready-made, low-prep sessions throughout the year, or our Behaviour resources for training and audit tools to support a consistent, whole-school approach to behaviour management.

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Curriculum and Teaching Audit Pack

A strong CPD programme is only part of the picture – it tells you how staff are developing, but not whether that development is translating into stronger curriculum design, sequencing and delivery in practice. The Curriculum and Teaching Audit evaluates curriculum intent, implementation and impact directly, helping you see whether the priorities driving your CPD plan are actually being realised in classrooms. Used together, the two packs give you a complete picture: what you're investing in staff development, and what difference it's making to teaching and the curriculum your pupils experience.

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