A user guide to self-assessment and improvement planning

20. Specialised tools and techniques

This section has been developed so that it offers you straightforward tools to help you with some of the tougher challenges of self-assessment and improvement planning. The tools will be valuable to experienced and new providers. Here they are:

• Key considerations in equality and diversity – an overview of key issues: see the section on safeguarding for more ideas
• Encouraging participation in self-assessment and improvement planning – for briefing teams and individuals, including those whose participation in the processes you want to enhance
• Self-assessment for support staff – some ideas for measuring performance and linking their work to the learners' experience and the CIF
• Managing risk in self-assessment and improvement planning