Wellbeing Award
A nationally recognised Quality Mark for excellence in mental health and wellbeing.
About the Award
The Leaders in Safeguarding Wellbeing Award is an independent Quality Mark that recognises organisations demonstrating exceptional commitment to mental health and wellbeing.
Whether in a school, college, business, charity or public service environment, the Award provides a trusted way to evidence strong leadership, a positive culture, and effective systems that support the wellbeing of staff, learners, volunteers and wider communities.
It is awarded only following a rigorous external review, ensuring the recognition is meaningful, credible, and aligned with best practice.
There is an award framework for schools and colleges and a separate framework for business and charities. They emphasise the same core principles: strong leadership, an environment that values wellbeing, and systems that promote resilience, participation and appropriate support.
Schools and Colleges
Business and Charities
Why Wellbeing Matters
- Across all sectors, wellbeing is increasingly recognised as essential to organisational success:
- Legal and regulatory expectations require organisations to provide safe, supportive environments. Schools must follow guidance such as Keeping Children Safe in Education and the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter, while charities follow guidance from the Charities Commission and businesses are bound by only by health and safety and employment legislation.
- Recruitment and retention benefit significantly when mental health and wellbeing are prioritised. Younger professionals and early-career staff increasingly choose employers and educational settings that actively support wellbeing.
- Performance and productivity improve when people feel supported, valued, and connected to a positive culture.
- Reputation and community confidence grow when wellbeing is embedded and externally validated.
Key benefits include:
- Independent validation of your commitment to wellbeing
- Confidence and reassurance for staff, learners, volunteers, parents, carers, stakeholders and regulators
- A comprehensive audit report with practical recommendations for improvement
- Access to specialist tools, training and resources to help build capacity
- A prestigious certificate and digital badge to support branding, recruitment and public recognition
- Inclusion on the Leaders in Safeguarding published awards register
- A positive link to retention, engagement and organisational performance, whether in education or the workplace
- 12 months’ access to LIS helpline for continued support.
- Both versions of the Award stress that this is not a tick-box process. Only organisations that evidence sustained excellence achieve accreditation.
Why Organisations Choose This Award
Common reasons schools, colleges, businesses and charities choose the Award include:
- Strengthening organisational culture
- Increasing confidence among staff, volunteers and stakeholders Improving recruitment, retention and engagement
- Reducing absence and supporting performance
- Demonstrating accountability and leadership commitment
- Supporting continuous improvement through expert recommendations
What Others Say…
“The team were great to work with and gave us the space to reflect on the many ways we promote learner and staff wellbeing and how we could keep moving this work forwards.”
“Achieving the Leaders in Safeguarding Award gave us the confidence and recognition that our safeguarding arrangements are robust and effective.”
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Leaders in Safeguarding Gold Award
We were absolutely delighted to achieve a Gold Award from Leaders in Safeguarding. We have always taken safeguarding very seriously and strived for excellence. The advice, guidance and support we have received from Leaders in Safeguarding has been invaluable in ensuring our processes and procedures are as good as they can be.
We work with more than 10,000 learners every year from all age groups, backgrounds and ethnicities. We are focussed and driven to ensure that all barriers are removed to allow every single learner to achieve their potential, whether on an apprenticeship or an adult learning course.
We’ll continue to work hard to ensure safeguarding remains at the core of everything we do.
Kim Curtain
Safeguarding & Wellbeing Manager at Realise
Achieving the Leaders in Safeguarding Award has definitely supported our business by helping us in understanding best practice and to help demonstrate just how effective we are at protecting our students and promoting their welfare. This has confirmed that we lead by example within the safeguarding umbrella and has helped towards our impressive OFSTED inspection reports and grading. This has ensured that safeguarding remains at the forefront of our business.
Progression 2 Work – July 2023
Johanne Varley Managing Director
Leaders in Safeguarding Gold Award
Sorin Neacsu, Head of Safeguarding: “We are so proud to have been awarded the Leaders in Safeguarding accreditation at a Gold standard in recognition of the RHN’s outstanding safeguarding culture. To receive the Gold Award is a testament to all RHN colleagues and their dedication to the safety and welfare of those we care for, which has always remained our number one priority.”
Della Warren, Director of Nursing: “We are delighted to have received such amazing feedback from Leaders in Safeguarding. This is a tremendous achievement which has been made possible by the Safeguarding Team and all staff who work to ensure the safety of our patients and residents. The RHN will continue to deliver outstanding safeguarding measures, keeping patient and resident welfare and safety at the centre of everything we do.”
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability – March 2023
Leaders in Safeguarding Gold Award
We are absolutely delighted to have had our safeguarding arrangements recognised through achieving the gold standard with Leaders in Safeguarding.
At Lifetime, we are dedicated in ensuring that learners have access to the high quality support to help maximise their potential and through our safeguarding teams we actively engage and promote safeguarding arrangements with all of our partners. Our teams are passionate about supporting learners and have excellent knowledge which transcends across the business and brings the importance of safeguarding to the forefront of the organisation.
Dan Ball – Quality Director
https://www.lifetimetraining.co.uk/
Lifetime Training – March 2024
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