Healthy FE Impact Measures

Welcome to our workshop on Impact Measures Jane Marshall – Healthy College Manager Graham Fleming – Programme Manager for Sport, Public Services, Hospitality and Tourism Aims of the workshop: To provide an opportunity to explore Healthy FE measures and potential impacts on colleges To provide a forum in which we can share ideas and experience To provide an opportunity for colleagues to contribute to the development of an Impact Measurement Tool that would be of benefit to Colleges developing Healthy FE

The Vision The vision for the future is for FE providers to have strong relationships with community partners to create a learning environment where positive well-being is the expectation for all, producing learners and staff who are confident, healthy, safe, emotionally resilient and personally fulfilled.’‘ Healthy FE Steering Group, December 2008 Health should be the core of what you do – then they will learn … Ed Balls

Aspirations Improved Health of Students & Staff - Improved attendance / Higher levels of concentration / Better results! Pleasant College Environment - Nicer place to work & study – better results Attract more Students & High Caliber staff -Higher retention and success rates! Increased income and reduced wastage -Stable finances Better self assessment -Good Ofsted inspection result A Successful College

Measurable Impacts From a staff perspective, healthy college has contributed significantly to reducing staff absenteeism to just over 3%, a saving for Bradford College against any national public sector benchmark of at least £390k. From a student perspective improved diets and eating patterns have helped keep students alert which in turn has contributed to improved success rates, this impact has resulted in a £700k increase in our funding contract. Doug Stott – Director of Finance (2009)

The Process Establish Task Group & Healthy FE Measures Agree Periods of Implementation Measure Outcomes Impact Appoint Healthy FE Co-ordinator

Consultation Exercise Working in groups and using the Healthy FE Impact Measurement Tool (spreadsheet): 1.Discuss the list of suggested measures and potential impacts in terms of their suitability for use in your organisations 2.What do you want the impact measurement tool to do for you? Please make any recommendations, feel free to add or take-away from the lists 3.Discuss format and layout – how would you like it look? 4.Do you foresee any barriers within your organisations to measuring these impacts? 5.Appoint someone in your group to feedback to the workshop

Conclusion Aims of the workshop re-visited: To provide an opportunity to explore Healthy FE measures and potential impacts on colleges To provide a forum in which we can share ideas and experience To provide an opportunity for colleagues to contribute to the development of an Impact Measurement Tool that would be of benefit to Colleges developing Healthy FE Many thanks for attending the workshop. Jane Marshall Graham Fleming