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It is the responsibility of the individual CPD providers to maintain their opportunities. We provide a management system for them to add, edit and delete opportunities. In addition, any dated occurrences are automatically deleted when the date passes.

If you see information that is out of date on CPDFind, please let us know (cpdanswers@ltscotland.org.uk) and we will take steps to remedy the situation!

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This logo is only available for use to registered providers and is, therefore, not on the public-facing site.

If you log in as a provider, you will see a button marked Resources.  Select that to view and download the various types of logo available. There are print as well as web site versions.

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It’s pretty straightforward. Have a look at the information in the providers’ area of our web site and drop us a line at cpdregister@ltscotland.org.uk.

Generally, they will be ‘satisfied customers’ of your CPD provision. There are no hard and fast rules but these are some of the features of referees we have accepted in the past:

• involved in education
• working at a local authority or national level (although school leaders are also acceptable)
• have been responsible for commissioning and evaluating your CPD provision.

Please get in touch at cpdanswers@ltscotland.org.uk if you need further advice in this area.

The A-Z is a list of registered providers in alphabetical order.  Selecting a provider’s name will provide you with background information about the provider, the opportunities they offer as well as contact details.

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The CPDFind database is being developed in several stages:

Stage 1 – building on the Register of CPD Providers which already exists. This work was completed by April 2007.

Stage 2 – extending the number of CPD providers by:

• Identifying and working with CPD providers (not on the Register) to make their opportunities available
• Working with local authority providers of CPD to make links between their local online CPD systems and CPDFind.
• allow RSS feeds from the system
• linking CPDFind to CPDReflect
• improve the search mechanism to concentrate on key words field
• allow user friendly ‘narrowing down’ of searches
• generate feedback on popular and no-hit search terms

Much of stage 2 is now complete but we continue to reach out to new providers.

Stage 3 – localising and personalising with Glow.  This stage is linked to the work on Glow. Using the Glow log-in details will allow us to:

• set up CPD providers at establishment, learning community and local authority level
• endorse CPD opportunities on the system
• provide a direct link to CPDFind from the staff home page of Glow
• set ‘alerts’ for areas of CPD that interest you.

In addition, we continue to respond to feedback from users and CPD providers. We always like to hear from you so please drop us a line at cpdanswers@ltscotland.org.uk and let us know how to do better!

CPD managers, in local authorities or establishments, may require evidence of satisfactory disclosure for certain types of CPD.  Thus, we would advise that you Read more…

CPD providers should have the relevant experience required to deliver opportunities within the education sector, as well as having Read more…

There are numerous benefits of becoming an approved provider and entering your opportunities on CPDFind.

• you can promote your CPD opportunities to more than 80,000 educators in Scotland.
• Most of the local authority CPD websites have a direct link to CPDFind
• you are entitled to use the National Register logo which can be used on all your promotional materials.
• the National Register of CPD providers is fully supported by the Scottish Government.

Yes, we have provided a CPDFind button to do this.

If you would like to link to CPDFind from your own website, just copy the HTML code below and paste it into your web page.

<a href=’http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/cpdscotland/cpdfind/search.asp’ title=’link to CPDFind’><img border=’0′ alt=” title=’link to CPDFind’ src=’http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/images/CPDFindbutton_tcm4-433580.jpg’></a>

You can get instructions for doing so on the CPDScotland website or contact cpdanswers@ltscotland.org.uk if you get stuck!

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