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Discover how Kirklees College has transformed student and staff wellbeing using a trauma-informed, restorative approach. A trauma-informed approach recognises the impact of past trauma on an individual’s behaviour and wellbeing, fostering a supportive environment that prioritises empathy, understanding, and resilience.

In this webinar, Polly Harrow, Assistant Principal and DfE FE Student Support Champion, Philippa Lucarz, Executive Director of People & Culture, and Carlie Smith, Safeguarding and Behaviour Manager, will share their experiences and insights from rolling out this approach across the college.

What’s covered in the webinar:

  • Student Wellbeing: Practical strategies to support student mental health and promote positive behaviour
  • Staff Wellbeing: How a trauma-informed culture can enhance employee wellbeing and resilience
  • Restorative Practices: Insights into how restorative approaches strengthen relationships and create safer environments
  • Lessons from Implementation: Challenges, successes, and key takeaways from Kirklees College’s experience

Speakers

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Clare Keniry
Head of Diversity and Inclusion

Clare Keniry, Board Director and Head of Diversity & Inclusion at Morgan Hunt, has over 20 years of recruitment experience across the UK and Australia. She leads the push for a diverse and inclusive culture within the company. Morgan Hunt is dedicated to helping organisations create genuinely diverse workplaces.

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Polly Harrow
Assistant Principal at Kirklees College & DfE Student Support Champion

Polly Harrow is a highly skilled and experienced educational practitioner who has delivered training and presentations to audiences across the UK and Europe, with outstanding feedback. She has worked in education for over 25 years and has a significant proven track record and an excellent reputation across the sector. She is Assistant Principal and Senior Designated Safeguarding lead at Kirklees College, a qualified Trauma and Mental Health National Practitioner (Distinction, TISUK), a Prevent national practitioner (radicalisation) and a Senior Mental Health Lead.

Polly’s areas of expertise sit primarily in all aspects of safeguarding, equality, diversity & inclusion, restorative and trauma informed practice, positive behaviour, exploitation & radicalisation, coaching & mentoring and sexual harms and violence, gangs and knife crime. Polly sits on a number of local and national boards and steering groups focussed on safeguarding, mental health and youth violence. She has been an Associate with ETF and previously was Chair of Namss for 10 years. In December 2023, Polly was announced by Minister Robert Halfon as the first FE Student Support Champion in the post 16 sector.

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Carlie Smith
Safeguarding and Behaviour Manager at Kirklees College
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Philippa Lucarz
Executive Director of People & Culture at Kirklees College

A strategic HR practitioner with extensive experience in both the Public, Private, and Education sectors.

I deliver and oversee the provision of an efficient, effective, and high-quality professional HR service. I help an organisation develop its brand as an employer of choice: creating a positive employee experience from on-boarding and throughout the employee lifecycle.

I take pride in making effective contributions at a strategic level, identifying HR priorities and people management solutions which support the development of a culture of excellence.

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