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‘Healthy FE and Skills recognition’ is a new programme to promote health and well being amongst learners and staff in organisations across England. 

Supported by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) and Skills Funding Agency, the programme gives providers opportunity to undertake a self-review and develop a two-year action plan that they will work towards to improve health and wellbeing.
There are twenty organisations that have recently been awarded Healthy FE and Skills status. The total number of learning and skills providers who have gained recognition since 2009 is now 77. 

As the Department of Health’s recently published mental health strategy implementation framework illustrates there is a lot that further education providers can do to promote learners’ mental health and wellbeing.

LSIS’s Head of Quality and Equalities, Margaret Adjaye said:

“The contribution that Healthy FE can make to improved student retention and achievement should not be underestimated, nor should the importance of health and wellbeing overall.”

The twenty new providers to have gained the Healthy FE and Skills recognition are:

Adult and Community Learning providers:
1. Chester West and Chester Council
2. Derby City Council
3. Derbyshire Adult Community Education Service (DACES)
4. Leicester Adult Skills and Learning Service, Leicester City Council
5. Hertfordshire Adult and Family Learning Service (HAFLS)
6. Community Education Lewisham
7. North Lincolnshire Council Adult Community Learning
8. Oxfordshire Skills and Learning Service
9. Shropshire Council

Prisons:

10. HMP Birmingham
11. HMYOI Brinsford
12. HMP Bullwood Hall
13. HMP and YOI – Chelmsford
14. HMP and YOI Drake Hall
15. HMP Garth
16. HMP Hewell
17. HMP Rye Hill
18. HMP Wolds

 Further Education colleges:

19. North Warwickshire and Hinckley College
20. South Leicestershire College

More information about gaining Healthy FE and Skills Recognition is available on the Excellence Gateway.