No AI-literacy CPD entitlement for the existing teacher workforce before the 2028 curriculum

The reformed curriculum (AI awareness from KS2, new computing GCSE, BCS drafting, consultation summer 2026) starts teaching in September 2028. In the interim, DfE support materials (June 2025, updated May 2026, with Chiltern Learning Trust and Chartered College) are optional online modules; TechYouth (£24m within DSIT's £187m TechFirst) funds pupil-facing resources, not teacher training; NCCE's funded CPD covers computing specialists only; Raspberry Pi Foundation's Experience AI is free but voluntary and patchy. No funded entitlement, cover funding or bursary exists for the ~460,000-strong workforce to learn to teach with and about AI.

Curriculum reform fails at the workforce layer: 2028 content taught by untrained teachers reproduces the computing-curriculum problem of 2014. Meanwhile pupils' actual AI use is shaped for three years by whatever schools improvise, deepening disadvantage gaps between well-resourced trusts and the rest.

Extend the NCCE model into a National Centre for AI in Teaching: a funded CPD entitlement (cover costs plus subject-specific pathways) for all teachers, sequenced to 2028 curriculum implementation and written into ITT core content.

// State-led: Instrument: DfE-funded national CPD entitlement with cover costs, written into ITT core content framework.

A 460,000-strong workforce must teach 2028 AI content with only optional modules today; the consultation is live this summer and three interim years shape pupils unequally.