Tailored early years training for teams supporting young children and families

Norland offers bespoke training programmes for a wide range of organisations in the UK and internationally, including early years settings, charities, and other professionals working with young children and families. Drawing on over a century of experience in early childhood education and care, we design and deliver training that’s both practical and relevant.

Training built around your needs

Every organisation is different — which is why we take time to understand your specific requirements before designing your training. We work closely with you to identify your goals, your audience, and any particular challenges you’re facing. This collaborative approach ensures that what we deliver is useful, meaningful and has a lasting impact.

Once we’ve gained a clear understanding of your context, we prepare a proposal tailored to your team. Whether you’re looking to enhance leadership, deepen staff knowledge, or explore new ways of supporting children and families, we build our offer around what matters most to you.

Our clients consistently tell us that our training has helped them to improve practice, strengthen their teams, and deliver more effective services for the children and families they support.

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Areas we cover

We offer training on a broad range of early years topics, including:

  • brain development in early childhood
  • learning through play and curriculum planning
  • leadership and management in early years settings
  • quality assurance and continuous improvement
  • health and wellbeing for children and staff
  • understanding behaviour, self-regulation and executive functioning
  • working effectively with children and families
  • developing healthy sleep routines
  • supporting young children through transitions.

If you’re looking for something specific or outside of this list, we’re happy to design a session or programme just for you.

Flexible delivery

Training can be delivered in the way that works best for your team:

  • online – live or pre-recorded
  • in person – either at your setting or at Norland in Bath
  • blended – combining in-person and online elements.

Sessions range from short workshops to multi-day courses and longer-term programmes.

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Get in touch

If you’re interested in commissioning early years training or would like to have an informal conversation about how we might support your team, we’d be pleased to hear from you.

Contact the Consultancy team: 

+44 (0) 1225 904493 

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