Equity and Wellbeing

The Partneriaeth Professional Learning Offer for Equity and Wellbeing has been developed to support leaders and practitioners to understand how to reduce educational inequalities and improve inclusion for all. A whole-school approach to wellbeing seeks to support and enhance social, emotional, mental, and physical well-being so that everybody has a sense of belonging and connectedness. A commitment to wellbeing supports learners to be able and ready to learn in a safe and supportive environment.

At the heart of Curriculum for Wales is a commitment to developing all learners to be healthy, confident, ethical, informed, enterprising, creative,  ambitious and capable. This can only be achieved if there is an understanding of, and commitment to, equity in education and the importance of learner wellbeing. Equity in education means providing every learner with the resources, support and learning experiences that meet their needs enabling them to succeed. Individual and social circumstances should not be a barrier to fulfilling educational potential. Equity in education requires systems, at school, local and national level take account of, and respond to, the unique challenges that present themselves to individuals or groups of learners. Wellbeing can be understood as how people feel and how they function, both on a personal and a social level, and how they evaluate their lives as whole.