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

The reformed curriculum teaches AI awareness from key stage 2 with a new computing GCSE drafted by BCS, consultation this summer, and first teaching in September 2028. Interim support is thin. DfE's materials with the Chiltern Learning Trust and the Chartered College are optional online modules. TechYouth, £24m inside DSIT's £187m TechFirst, funds pupil-facing resources rather than teacher training. NCCE's funded CPD covers computing specialists only, and Raspberry Pi Foundation's Experience AI is free, voluntary and patchy. No funded entitlement, cover funding or bursary exists for a workforce of around 460,000 to learn to teach with and about AI.

Curriculum reform fails at the workforce layer, and 2028 content taught by untrained teachers reruns the 2014 computing problem. In the three interim years, pupils' AI use is shaped by whatever schools improvise, and the gap between well-resourced trusts and the rest widens.

Extend the NCCE model into a National Centre for AI in Teaching: a funded CPD entitlement covering cover costs and subject-specific pathways for all teachers, sequenced to 2028 implementation and written into initial teacher training core content.

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

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