Welcome to Best Practice Network

BPN works at the forefront of development across the children's services sector, facilitating leadership and workforce development. Our vision is to be the leading provider of professional development in the Children's Services sector. Every person who works with us shares our commitment to developing leadership and management capabilities that support the Every Child Matters agenda.

Currently we are engaged in delivering services on behalf of the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC), the National College for School Leadership (NCSL), the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).

We deliver four programmes for the NCSL - Leadership Pathways, Multi Agency Team Development, Working Together for Success and Developing the Capacity for Sustained Improvement. BPN is the leading provider of Higher Level Teaching Assistant Status and Early Years Professional status. We have recently been accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) to deliver the Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring awards.

This unmatched portfolio of services, delivered across the country, provides us with a national perspective and a rich database of successful practice.

Quick links to items you may be looking for:

• Early Years Practitioner programmes
• EYPS programme resources (requires login)
• Easter Colouring Competition Image Gallery
• HLTA Task forms
• Secondary HLTA food technology
• Revised standards training (requires login)
• Management SkillSet login page

Alternatively, please refer to our a-z site map.

News in brief

• HLTA Secondary Food Technology

  Best Practice Network is delighted to be supporting the national Higher Level Teaching Assistant secondary food technology initiative more…

• HLTAs delivering better outcomes

  Best Practice Network have produced a DVD for schools and local authorities to showcase some of the innovative and varied ways in which HLTAs can be used to raise achievement more…

• Professional Administrators Day

  BPN Administrators Rahim Ahmed and Laura Borrelli were joint runners up in the competition arranged by Recruitment Moves during April 2009 more…

• Best Practice in ...

  Sign up now for one or more of our Best Practice in School Administration and Finance training days taking place in London and Central Birmingham during June and July 2009. more…

• EYPS Study Visit to Viborg

  Last month, 20 EYP participants from Dorset and Bournemouth went on a study visit to Viborg in Denmark to observe and experience a variety of Danish early years provisions, particularly outdoor environments more…

• Easter Egg Competition

  The Best Practice Network children's colouring competition generated a lot of entries and helped promote EYPS in Bristol more…