These materials can support teachers/trainers and tutors in thinking about introducing safeguarding to learners. They were produced for LSIS by the National Association for Managers of Students Services in Colleges (NAMSS) and they look at safeguarding both within the college (or any learning environment) and outside. The materials include presentations to use with learners, as well as a lesson plan, icebreaker activity and tutorial template.
This resource comprises the report and resources developed by the Equality and Diversity Partnership Project led by St John’s College. The project developed an advisory and support pack for use by Independent Specialist Providers (ISPs) to enable them to ensure that young people with LDD are able to access Apprenticeships where appropriate. The pack has been designed to meet the needs of apprenticeship providers and their networks of employers.
This resource comprises the report and resources developed by the Equality and Diversity Partnership Project led by the National Union of Students (NUS). The overall aim of the initiative was to support staff and learners to tackle real and perceived tensions between lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equalities, and religion and belief equalities, in FE colleges. The project focused on dialogue as a means to increase and improve inter-personal communication between learners relating to the subject of faith and sexuality.
This resource comprises the report and resources developed by the Equality and Diversity Partnership Project led by the Humber Learning Consortium. The overall aim was to improve equality and diversity practice across a network of 20 voluntary community sector (VCS) learning providers in the Humber sub-region. A Quality Improvement Network was launched and questionnaire created and completed by 20 VCS delivery partners.
This resource comprises the report and resources developed by an Equality and Diversity Partnership Project led by Sussex Downs College in 2009-10. The aim of the project was to improve the understanding of WBL providers on how to evidence Equality & Diversity through the production of a good practice toolkit.
A project aimed to understand the reasons behind the different attainment levels between male and female students. Extensive exmaples of tools and resources are provided.
This resource comprises the report and resources developed by an Equality and Diversity Partnership Project led by Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education in 2009-10. The project aimed to enable better understanding of the experiences and barriers of LGBT people in education, learning and training and look at how good educational professionals are at promoting all sexualities and gender identities. The resources included are the final report, the Empower toolkit, an Empower executive summary, and recommended resources.
This resource comprises the report and resources developed by the Equality and Diversity Partnership Project led by Orpington College. The aim was to develop a process/methodology for implementing high impact improvements to Equality and Diversity by creating an ‘E & D Scorecard’, based on a number of headline Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that any education or training organisation could use to evaluate their performance in the areas of Equality and Diversity.
This Equality & Diversity Partneship project undertook research into factors affecting academic under-achievement by identified ethnic groups in post-16 further education in the Swindon area and recommended actions to address these. The principal focus was on 16-19 year old minority ethnic students studying for long courses. The aim was to enable the colleges to improve student experience and success at college.
The resources included are:
• Final report
• Flyer
• Going to College project resource
This resource comprises the report and resources developed by the Equality and Diversity Partnership Project led by Abingdon and Witney College in 2009-10.
