A college and work based learning provider have collaborated to create a Professional Training programme for a group of practitioners who have trained as Subject Learning Coaches and want to develop their skills further to offer coaching to a wider cohort than their own subject area in preparation to deliver the Diploma qualification.

Once trained the coaches acted as a catalyst to ensure that a quality improvement culture was embedded across the whole organisation. This approach has provided the framework for groups of teachers and other practitioners to work together to support the planned roll out of the Creative and Media Diploma across this consortium in London. The benefits have been significant and the different partners have seen improvements in partnership working, teaching and learning, staff morale and motivation and a much more positive attitude to the inevitable changes that the new Diploma regime has brought to all those involved.