Professional support for all
What do policing and teaching have in common? Rachel Tuffin explains how two fledgling professional bodies can use evidence to support their members
Depending on your point of view, you might think there’s not a lot of common ground between teaching and policing – although both professions try to make sure people behave themselves! From the public perspective, both policing and teaching are often seen as responsible for wider societal well-being, well beyond the more direct work they both do to protect young people. Over the past few years, police and teaching have experienced shrinking budgets and rising public demand and expectations, in the context of a rapidly changing society, both in terms of demographics and technology.
There is another thing they have in common – until recently, neither had a professional body with an authoritative independent voice. Our organisation, the College of Policing, was set up to address this gap.
Rachel Tuffin explains how the College of Policing use the Education Endowment Foundation and The College of Teaching as role models, and what policing and teaching have in common.
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