These programmes are for teaching staff, management, careers advisors etc. The key purpose of Professional Development Placements is to enable teachers and related professional staff to better prepare school students for employment, training and life long learning.	A PDP visit to Wrights Flour Co in Enfield

PDP Programmes allow participants to:

• gain a better understanding of the world of work
  
• support students' enterprise and work-related learning requirements
  
• update specialist knowledge
  
• develop new skills
  
• access resources to support the curriculum
  
• establish contacts and links with the world of work
  
• enhance and develop leadership or management skills
  

Customised PDP Programmes

Customised programmes can also be individually tailored to meet the requirements of individuals, whole departments or even larger groups.

Customised PDPs can be very useful for participants wishing to update their specialist knowledge of a particular type of business or function within a business, especially to support the delivery of vocational courses.

For more information and examples of the benefits of PDPs download the leaflet " Work Related Learning and Professional Development Placements"

PDP Programme for 2007/8 (check the Calendar for further details):

Autumn term 2007

Tuesday 29 January 2008: 'Changing the Guard' Music PDP