Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the structured vocational learning any professional carries out to keep their knowledge, skills and capabilities up to date. It is learning that shapes and boosts our careers and helps maintain competence when laws, regulations, standards and practice change, or your career path alters course.
Your learning – the CPD activities you undertake each year – can include formal training courses but also many free and easy-to-access opportunities like reading and writing relevant books, reports and articles, webinars, workshops, conferences and site visits, coaching, and anything else which helps you learn and develop.
Planning, tracking and evidencing your learning is simple yet very important – it helps you set goals, find learning activities that will help you achieve them and keep a record of what you have learned.