Equality guides and resources

Safeguarding resources

These resources from our recent Community of Practice explain what you need to do as a learning provider and give you advice, links and guidance to support your learners.

• Safeguarding: Community of Practice slide deck, 2025 (PowerPoint)

• Safeguarding: Community of Practice – list of useful links about safeguarding, 2025 (Word)

• Safeguarding: Community of Practice events summary feedback report 2025 (PDF)

Supporting Care Experienced apprentices

These documents will help you support Care Experienced apprentices.

• Resource on Care Experience for learning providers to support apprentices (PDF)

• The Real Toolkit: A 'Leaving Care' resource for people with care experience and those who support them (web page)

• Welcome pack with information and tips for Care Experienced apprentices (PDF)

Supporting disabled people to become apprentices

Learn how apprenticeships can help you attract, recruit and support the inclusion of disabled people.

• Guide to funded Modern Apprenticeships and DFN Project SEARCH, March 2023 (PDF) — discover how these programmes link together to provide fantastic opportunities for people with a learning disability, autism or both to move into work

Neurodiversity support

Use these resources to lead a group session or equip line managers with the knowledge they need.

• Neurodiversity handout for group sessions (PDF)

• Neurodiversity handout for line managers (PDF)

Supporting inclusive recruitment

These guides contain top tips on inclusive recruitment for you or the employers you work alongside.

• Guide to conducting a Needs Assessment, September 2021 (PDF)

• Skills Development Scotland's inclusive recruitment guides (Employer Hub web page)

Supporting mental health

These documents will help you support apprentices with their mental health and wellbeing.

• Mental wellbeing support for apprentices (PDF)

• Supporting apprentices around suicide and self-harm (PDF)

• Supporting Mental Health at Work: The Employer Toolkit (PDF)

Guidance for apprentices

As a learning provider, you should tell apprentices about these documents. They can use them to support their own mental health and wellbeing.

• Mental health and wellbeing support for apprentices (PDF)

• Looking after mental health at work (PDF)