Supporting Wellbeing to Improve Outcomes in Teaching and Training
Why positive staff and learner health matters for engagement, retention and achievement across the teaching and training sector.
Overview
This 90-minute webinar challenges education and training providers to move beyond reactive wellbeing initiatives and adopt a strategic, evidence-informed approach that places learner and staff health at the centre of engagement, retention and outcomes. Set against rising mental health needs, workload pressures, anxiety and increasing SEND and neurodiversity, the session explores how wellbeing must be fully embedded across the learner journey rather than treated as a standalone priority.
Drawing on performance data, learner and staff voice, and practical sector insights, it will demonstrate how to identify pressure points, strengthen safeguarding and inclusion, and build psychologically safe environments. With a clear focus on leadership, culture and consistent practice, the webinar equips participants to implement a sustainable, whole-organisation approach that delivers measurable impact on both learner success and staff resilience.
Objectives
This webinar will help delegates to:
- Evaluate how effective health and well-being strategies, with a key focus on mental health issues, workload, anxiety, SEND and neurodivergence, can be designed to support and ensure a healthy environment to ensure a positive impact on engagement, inclusion and sustained outcomes.
- Critically assess and build an evidence base to demonstrate how well current approaches respond to key health and wellbeing challenges which enhance learning and working communities, identifying strengths, gaps and clear priorities for continuing development.
- Develop an evidence-informed approach that uses learner and staff voice, alongside analysing and reporting of performance data and evidence gathered through quality assurance processes. Also, to identify and address health and wellbeing needs and inform a strategy and approach to develop a healthy, inclusive and stable learning and workforce community.
Who Should Attend?
This webinar is designed for all FES and HEI providers (including ITPs, HEIs, employer providers and colleges), apprenticeships, adult learning, Academies and NHS Trusts and 16-19 provision and is suitable for the following roles:
- Senior Leaders
- Quality and curriculum managers
- Learner support
- HR management and leads
- Pastoral care and enrichment managers
- Curriculum leads
- Inclusion directors. Management/leads
- Safeguarding team
- Mental health first aiders
Agenda
10:00 – 10:05 (5 mins)
Welcome and Context Setting
- Framing the challenge: rising complexity in staff and learner wellbeing
- Why wellbeing is now central to engagement, retention and outcomes
- What “healthy minds” looks like in practice
10:05 – 10:25 (20 mins)
Using the Ofsted Inspection Framework Toolkit & KCSIE
- Leadership responsibilities for a safe, inclusive culture
- Linking wellbeing to safeguarding, Prevent and inclusion
- Building a truly inclusive and equitable culture
10:25 – 10:45 (20 mins)
The Reality: Pressures on Learners and Staff
- Key wellbeing challenges (mental health, workload, SEND, etc.)
- Audience reflection: what’s showing up right now?
10:45 – 11:05 (20 mins)
What Works: Learner Health and Wellbeing in Practice
- Embedding wellbeing across the learner journey
- Creating safe, inclusive environments
- Provider example
- Linking staff wellbeing to learner experience
11:05 – 11:20 (15 mins)
Measuring What Matters: Voice, Data and Impact
- Capturing staff and learner voice
- Using data to identify risks and trends
- Demonstrating impact
- Turning insight into action
11:20 – 11:30 (10 mins)
Reflection Points and Q&A
Facilitator
Maureen Deary, FE and Skills and Independent Schools Inspector, Strategic Adviser in Quality
Maureen is a current practising further education and skills inspector and lead inspector for the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI). She inspects and provides consultancy support across all FE and Skills and HEI provision and a wide range of sector areas sectors. She works with a range of colleges, prime and sub-contractor/partner training provider organisations and is a consultant and adviser in quality development support and improvement work and has supported organisations for over thirty years in the state, private, schools, further and higher education sectors. . She has lived and worked overseas in the education sector and has held representative sports coaching posts to national level. Maureen has worked for a number of awarding bodies approving new centres, developing qualifications, acting as a Chief and Centre Approvals Verifier/Moderator and Principal Examiner and QCF qualification designer, whilst living in the UK and in Hong Kong and Asia.
Guest Speaker
Ian Smith, FES Consultancy, Inspector, Former Ofsted Senior HMI and Consultant.
Ian Smith is a qualified teacher. He is a former Ofsted Senior Her Majesty’s Inspector and has 20 years recent experience in inspection, having worked as a senior manager for the Adult Learning Inspectorate and then moving to Ofsted. He gained extensive senior management experience as a senior leader in a general further education college and holds a degree level management qualification and a Postgraduate Award in Inspection and Evaluation. Ian has wide experience spanning over 35 years in all aspects of further education and skills and across provider types. Ian has managed a national quality improvement service and has experience of managing education programmes for young people, apprenticeships, community learning and adult skills provisions. He has carried out international work in quality improvement. Currently Ian is working as a consultant and advisor in the Further Education sector.
Guest Speaker
Sue Gomer, Quality Director, Logistica Training & Consultancy
Quality Director at Logistica Training & Consultancy, an experienced senior leader within adult education and apprenticeships. Responsible for Ofsted, Matrix and DFE quality compliance.
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Fees
Member Rate £89.00 + VAT
Non Member Rate £139.00 + VAT
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