ABOUT US

People and Business Development is owned and managed by Alison Midgley, a qualified teacher, and her husband Ross, a chartered accountant.

Our previous company was Crocus Early Years, a chain of three day nurseries which - at the time of its sale to the Bright Horizons group in 2007 - provided over 200 places and had achieved outstanding Ofsted results at each nursery. We invested heavily in training and development for our 75 staff and this has given us a great understanding of what a training provider must do to succeed.

We believe in quality, attention to detail and the effective use of technology. For work-based qualifications, we are strongly committed to electronic portfolios, which can be accessed securely by the learner, the assessor or verifier and the employer, anywhere there is web access. This can dramatically reduce the time needed to complete a qualification.

We are accredited as a centre by City & Guilds and the Institute of Leadership and Management and we can deliver a range of qualifications and one off courses, with particular specialisations in business management and early years practice. We employ only experienced trainers and assessors of the highest calibre.

We also offer employers a complete training management service.

We are based in offices close to Haverhill (between Cambridge and Braintree) but we cover the whole of Great Britain.