2025-26 access and participation plans: webinars for providers and students

These events are aimed at practitioners or strategic contacts at providers who are working on access and participation plans as well as students and students’ unions who may be working on completing the student submission.  

The first webinar contains more information for students and students’ unions completing the student submission than the second webinar.

Find out more about our approach, including which providers are in wave 2

Part one - student engagement, mental health and the EORR

This webinar includes: 

• An introduction from the Director for Fair Access and Participation 
• Key changes in the guidance for providers submitting their access and participation plans  
• An overview of how providers may demonstrate that they are meeting our expectations in three of our six priority areas:
  • student engagement and consultation
  • mental health of students
  • the EORR and risks to equality of opportunity.

Part two - diverse provision, evaluation and pre-16 attainment

This webinar includes: 

• An overview of how providers may demonstrate how they are meeting our expectations in three of our six priority areas:
  • diverse and flexible provision
  • increased evaluation and theory of change
  • raising pre-16 attainment.