Mental Health Matters for Learning and Skills

[Target audience] [What this course will do] [Learning outcomes for participants] [Outcomes for organisations] [Training context] [Programme] [Event Information] [Application Conditions] [Application Form]

Target audience

• Teacher educators delivering accredited training leading to a teaching qualification
• Managers, practitioners and trainers planning or delivering formal or informal continuing professional development opportunities in the learning and skills sector.

The training will be contextualised to the needs of the providers represented in the learning group. This might include representatives from FE colleges, Higher Education (HE) providers, work-based learning and vocational training providers, third sector organisations, those delivering programmes related to employability or employment outcomes for Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and providers of learning services in the criminal justice system.

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What this course will do

This training event will develop the confidence and capacity of participants to offer in-house training to new teachers and colleagues about how to support learners who have a declared or undeclared mental health difficulty. It will:

• Illustrate how the Toolkit can be used to challenge the multiple and complex barriers that exist for learners who experience a mental health condition
• Demonstrate how this practice can be effectively embedded into existing initial teacher training and continuing professional development programmes.

Delegates attending this course will have the opportunity to work with copies of the Toolkit, and will receive a copy to take away at the end of the session.

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Learning outcomes for participants

• Develop confidence and increased self-awareness of how understanding of learners with a mental development and/or delivery of teacher training qualifications
• Identify how the Toolkit can be used to develop effective training sessions
• Understand how this can contribute to equality and diversity across an organisation.

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Outcomes for organisations

• In-house expertise that will enable delivery of workforce development and/or teacher training qualifications which embed understanding of the needs of learners with a mental health condition
• Improved understanding across the organisation of how to support this group of learners to succeed
• Evidence to support strategic commitment to equality and diversity.

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Training context

One in six adults experience a mental health condition at any one time and one in five employees will be affected in any one year. Although mental ill-health is common, the individuals affected continue to be amongst the most excluded in our society. The Coalition Government’s policy is already demonstrating awareness of the marginalisation of this group and the need to support more people with disabilities, including mental health conditions, towards paid or unpaid employment.

There is increasing evidence that accessing and sustaining participation in learning and skills can contribute positively to people’s recovery from a mental health condition. Now that equality and diversity and safeguarding performance are limiting grades in the Ofsted Common Inspection Framework, and quality management needs to highlight these standards, it is more important for FE sector organisations to be aware of how to recruit learners with declared or undeclared mental health conditions and support them to succeed in their learning.

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Programme

09:30 Arrival and registration (tea/coffee available)

10.00 Welcome and Introductions

Morning session - activities and group work

• Developing confidence and increasing self-awareness of how
  understanding of learners with a mental health difficulty can be
  embedded into workforce development and/or delivery of teacher
  training qualifications.

12:30 Lunch

13:00 Afternoon session - activities and group work

• How the Toolkit can be used to develop effective training sessions
• How this can contribute to equality and diversity across an organisation.

16.30 Close

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Event Information

Event fee per person: (includes sandwich lunch, tea/coffee)
£125 (Non NIACEmembers rate)
£99 (NIACEmembers rate)
NB: NIACE does not charge VAT on conference or course fees.

Only application forms with the payments section completed will be processed. NB: If you wish us to invoice your employer we require a copy of the Purchase Order before the form is processed.

Places will be allocated in order of receipt of completed application forms (one form per person)

Video cameras may be in use at this event. If you do not wish to be photographed or appear on the video outputs please indicate this on the application form and make yourself known at registration

Participants should be prepared to take their own notes as there will not be handouts for all sessions

If you have not received an e-mail confirming your attendance and joining instructions 4 working days before the event please contact:

NIACE Events Team
Tel: 0116 285 9661
Fax: 0116 285 9670
Minicom: 0116 255 6049
E-mail: events@niace.org.uk

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Application Conditions

Event: Thursday 21 October 2010
Closing Date: Thursday 7 October 2010

Cancellations will only be accepted if received in writing before the closing date and will be subject to an administration fee of £50

The full fee is payable prior to the event

Substitutions are to be advised 5 working days prior to the event

A 10 working days notice period is required for provision of electronic note-takers, sign language interpreters and transcription to Braille

Places can be reserved online via: www niace.org.uk/events Alternatively completed and signed application forms can be faxed or posted to NIACE by the closing date. Reservations by telephone cannot be accepted

Application forms are individually acknowledged by e-mail. Joining instructions, including map and directions, will be e-mailed out one week before the event

NIACE reserves the right to reject applicants who are not from the target audience list.

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Application Form

(For people not using the online reservation system above)