Enhance Your Students' Mental Health and Wellbeing Policy | Post-16

Anna Bateman
Mental health expert and former DfE adviser

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49 min

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This webinar will provide governors, headteachers, senior leaders, mental health leads and HR staff with practical advice and guidance on how to evaluate, revise and implement their mental health and wellbeing policy in line with pupil needs and the latest government guidance.
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Webinar Duration: 49 minutes (approx.)

This webinar will provide governors, headteachers, senior leaders, mental health leads and HR staff with practical advice and guidance on how to evaluate, revise and implement their mental health and wellbeing policy in line with pupil needs and the latest government guidance.

Keeping Children Safe in Education 2021 states the important role schools and colleges have to play in supporting their pupils' mental health and wellbeing. This follows a number of updates from the DfE and Ofsted this year placing a much greater focus on how education settings can implement a whole-school or college approach to mental health and deliver best practice provision.

In this webinar, Anna Bateman, mental health and wellbeing expert who works in an advisory role for the DfE, explores how schools and colleges can employ a robust and efficient review process, make impactful changes and implement the necessary steps to ensure policies are pupil-led and delivered in line with their needs.

Outcome 1:

Understanding what criteria to evaluate current mental health and wellbeing policies against and identifying key principles that your mental health policy should cover

Outcome 2:

Recognising how to integrate the latest DfE statutory guidance and education research as part of a whole-school or college approach to mental health

Outcome 3:

Identifying key mental health priorities in line with pupil needs in order to take fast, decisive and effective action

Outcome 4:

Realising the importance of building a policy which focuses on a whole-school or college approach and ensures all staff share responsibility for supporting children and young people's wellbeing

Outcome 5:

Identifying core sections that should form the basis of a best practice mental health policy which is inclusive, transparent and meets the needs of pupils

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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