Upcoming Webinar | Speak Up Culture & Evidencing Compliance for Your Ofsted Inspection
Webinar details:
🗓️ Thursday 3rd September
🕓 12:00pm - 12:45pm
📍 Online
Join Stefan Jordan, Colchester Institute's Director of Inclusion and Wellbeing, with Culture Shift Co-Founder, Gemma McCall, and as they break down what Ofsted's new further education and skills inspection toolkit actually expects from you on speaking up, follow-through, and staff protection.
From September 2026, Ofsted's renewed further education and skills inspection toolkit asks a harder question than whether you have a policy. Inspectors will look for evidence that learners, apprentices and staff feel confident to report concerns, that you act on patterns rather than isolated incidents, and that bullying, harassment and victimisation are genuinely not tolerated in practice.
These criteria appear across Participation and Development, Leadership and Governance, and the cultural dimension of Safeguarding. Most providers can produce the policy, far fewer can produce the evidence.
This free webinar works through the inspectors' own language, line by line, and sets out what strong practice looks like against each criterion:
- Accessible, multi-channel reporting that gives learners and apprentices confidence they will be taken seriously
- Visible follow-through that closes the loop once a concern is raised
- Insights that let leaders demonstrate strategic action on patterns, with a clear view of what is changing over time
We will also cover the staff-facing side under Leadership and Governance, where protecting staff from bullying, harassment and victimisation is now graded in its own right.
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What we're reading
Latest insights from the front lines of workplace culture.
The Junior-Senior Speak-Up Divide: What the Data Reveals About Hierarchy and Silence
Speaking up about workplace misconduct shouldn’t depend on where someone sits in the organisational chart. But as shown in The Culture Shifters Annual Report 26/27, it does. Junior employees are twice as likely as senior leaders to believe that speaking up is "pointless," with 54% holding this view compared to just 27% of senior leaders.
Why Collecting Misconduct Data Isn't Enough to Meet the New All Reasonable Steps Duty
Our co-founder and CEO, Gemma McCall, has written a piece for The HR Director exploring one of the most persistent gaps in workplace misconduct management: the space between collecting data and actually using it.
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The NDA Ban Under the Employment Rights Act: What It Means for HR
When you can no longer buy silence, you have to invest in safety. That's the shift HR teams now need to plan for. Some organisations have historically leaned on settlement agreements and non-disclosure agreements to resolve harassment complaints quietly, keeping the details contained and the reputational risk low. The Employment Rights Act 2025 closes that option down. Once the NDA ban comes into force, a culture of silence stops being something the law will let you enforce.
Feeling inspired?
Take the first step toward preventative misconduct management with a demo of our Report + Support™ platform. We can show you how to breakdown reporting barriers with anonymous 2-way messaging, and how to act before things escalate with name-matching and pattern-spotting across our analytics dashboard.
