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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Upcoming Webinar | Speak Up Culture & Evidencing Compliance for Your Ofsted Inspection
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.
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