🏷️ FOC
📍 Online

Course outline:

The SACPA Safeguarding Practice Forums are free networking sessions available exclusively to SACPA members. Aligned with SACPA’s mission to support safeguarding professionals, these monthly forums create a dedicated space for sharing knowledge, insights, and mutual encouragement.

Each session brings together safeguarding leads, practitioners, senior leaders, trustees, and governors to engage in meaningful discussion around a focused safeguarding theme. These virtual gatherings offer a valuable opportunity to stay connected, informed, and inspired within a supportive professional community.

Participation is open to SACPA members who have registered and received confirmation through our online booking system. If you are not already a SACPA member and want to benefit from networking with other safeguarding leads, did you know that professional membership pays for itself in as little as two out of the ten scheduled safeguarding practice forum sessions per year? You may want to browse our membership page. 

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Speaker:

Dr Mariya Ali, Director, SACPA

Mariya is an internationally recognised safeguarding and child protection expert with over 20 years’ multidisciplinary experience. She has held senior advisory, academic, legal, and leadership roles, including serving as Maldives Minister of Gender, Family, and Human Rights, leading reforms in child protection law and policy. Internationally, she has advised UNICEF, UNDP, and ECPAT on child sexual abuse, exploitation, and protection systems. Holding qualifications in law and child psychology, she has published widely on child rights, online safety, and trauma-informed practice. Mariya’s strategic vision, policy expertise, and frontline insight equip her to bring both global perspective and local understanding to SACPA’s mission.