Education Staff Wellbeing Charter: Enhancing Your Mental Health Policy

Anna Bateman
Mental health expert and former DfE adviser

Webinar

55 min

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This webinar will provide governors, headteachers, senior leaders and designated mental health leads with practical guidance on developing staff mental health/wellbeing policy, which align with the DfE’s education staff wellbeing charter and related government policy.
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This webinar will provide governors, headteachers, senior leaders and designated mental health leads with practical guidance on developing staff mental health and wellbeing policy, which align with the DfE’s education staff wellbeing charter and related government policy.

In May 2021, the DfE published its Education staff wellbeing charter, providing ‘a declaration of support for, and set of commitments to, the wellbeing and mental health of everyone working in education’. It is intended that schools and colleges can use the charter in the creation of their own staff wellbeing strategies.

In this webinar Anna Bateman, subject matter expert on mental health and wellbeing, who works in an advisory role for the DfE, identifies key components of staff mental health and wellbeing policy, which schools and colleges can use to embed a wellbeing-focused culture and evidence compliance with statutory duties.

Outcome 1:

Understanding how to shape the school and college staff mental health and wellbeing policy which reflects the new education staff wellbeing charter and other government policy

Outcome 2:

Gaining an insight into the content of the new education staff wellbeing charter and related government policy, including schools’ and colleges' statutory responsibilities as employers

Outcome 3:

Being able to undertake an audit of what schools and colleges already have in place and what might be added to enhance staff mental health and wellbeing provision

Outcome 4:

Recognising how to take a whole-school or college approach to staff wellbeing, ensuring that policy is consistent with practice and overall strategy

Outcome 5:

Being able to identify resources which schools and colleges can use to inform a comprehensive policy, demonstrating a real commitment to staff mental health and wellbeing

Anna Bateman

With more than 24 years’ experience in education as a teacher, trainer, consultant and Interim Executive Board member, Anna Bateman has gained a fantastic understanding of pedagogy, school improvement, leadership and what works.

She is passionate about placing prevention at the heart of every school, integrating mental wellbeing within the curriculum, school culture and systems. Through this work, students have the opportunity to learn skills and techniques to cope with modern day pressures alongside their academic studies.

Over the last 10 years Anna has worked with and transformed hundreds of primary and secondary schools. She has excellent subject knowledge and a solid understanding of how schools work. This puts her in a unique position to be able to offer highly innovative and bespoke programmes to resolve specific and complex issues.

As a previous member of the advisory group for the Department of Education, advising them on their mental health green paper, Anna has operated at the forefront of new initiatives and her passion is to drive these forward to the benefit of schools, school leaders and of course pupils and students.

Moreover, she is an accredited facilitator for the Academic Resilience Approach (Young Minds), Youth Mental Health First Aid Trained as well as a licensed PATHS trainer promoting alternative thinking strategies.

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