Support for learners’ mental health and emotional wellbeing - The work of further education, work-based learning and adult learning in the community providers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Recommendations
Further education colleges, work-based learning providers and adult learning in the community partnerships should:
- R1 Target resources to promote positive mental health and emotional wellbeing carefully in order to avoid overloading learners and staff with too much information
- R2 Identify carefully those learners most at risk from disengaging from learning or experiencing mental health and emotional wellbeing issues and monitor their wellbeing on a regular basis
- R3 Prioritise the provision of support according to need to ensure that all learners requiring urgent help with their mental health and emotional wellbeing receive support as quickly as possible
- R4 Work as closely as possible with external agencies to make overall support for mental health and emotional wellbeing as seamless as possible and minimise, or ideally avoid, the need for multiple points of contact
- R5 Make clear how support for mental health and emotional wellbeing can be accessed by all learners, including those studying with subcontractors or partner providers
- R6 Ensure that all counselling staff, and other staff in similar roles, receive appropriate supervision or mentoring and undertake specific professional learning in how to provide remote support effectively
The Welsh Government should:
- R7 Ensure that the outcomes of Welsh Government-funded mental health projects are evaluated fully and share the findings across all post-16 sectors