The RTPI has a range of material available. Contact the Institute's CPD Manager for information. There may also be material on national television which is relevant to planning issues and which you feel is CPD for you. And don t forget your local library and Learn Direct, the Government s lifelong learning initiative providing wide-ranging accessible learning material. In addition, the Television Education Network Planning Channel videos provide programmes on wide-ranging planning issues.
International travel breaks Many planners take career breaks to undertake international travel.
If you do this you should review your PDP in order to readdress your CPD objectives. The learning experience you will gain via your travel and your study of other countries and their approach to planning. Your ability to keep up to date on planning issues at home whilst away. This could be by way of structured reading of Planning and other relevant journals. If you are undertaking a Gap Year you may not know where you will work when you return and what skills you will require.