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Course outline:

The landscape of safeguarding continues to evolve rapidly, with multiple new and updated frameworks shaping how professionals make decisions about safeguarding children and sharing data in various contexts.

From proposed updates to Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 to implementing Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026 and alongside the daily challenges presented by safeguarding concerns, SARs, complaints and allegations, professionals are required to interpret and apply guidance with increasing confidence and clarity. How do you use the Information Sharing Guidance with these developments? This webinar helps you to put it into context.

This webinar brings together key updates and explores how they impact real-world information sharing decisions, helping you navigate complexity, reduce risk, and act with confidence.

 Why attend

• Stay up to date with key safeguarding guidance and policy developments for 2026
• Understand how guidance impact day-to-day information sharing decisions
• Build confidence in making defensible, proportionate judgements
• Avoid common pitfalls linked to misinterpretation or inconsistency

This session will explore:

• Core principles underpinning personal data, special category data and effective information sharing
• How to interpret and apply multiple strands of guidance together
• Managing tensions between confidentiality, consent, and safeguarding duties
• Identifying and responding to risk in complex scenarios
• Ensuring consistency in organisational decision-making and recording

Learning outcomes

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Understand rules relating to personal data processing and how latest guidance shapes information sharing responsibilities
• Apply guidance confidently across a range of safeguarding contexts
• Make defensible and proportionate decisions under pressure
• Recognise risks associated with both over-sharing and under-sharing
• Support stronger, more consistent organisational practice

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Speakers:

Lily Bohling, Solicitor, Moore Barlow

Lily is a Solicitor in Moore Barlow’s Schools team, specialising in employment and education law.

Lily advises on a range of education law aspects, as well as both contentious and non-contentious employment law matters.  In particular, Lily has recently advised schools on grievance and disciplinary processes, dismissal strategy, safeguarding matters, employment contracts and subject access requests.

Outside of work, she is the Secretary of her local Junior Lawyers Division and a member of the Association of Women Solicitors.

In her free time, she enjoys exploring new places, keeping fit and singing.

Cerys Cousins, Moore Barlow

I advise independent schools and charities on a wide range of employment and education law matters. I am working towards specialising in matters including reputation management, pastoral and safeguarding issues, SEND, exclusions, parent and pupil complaints, data protection, parent contracts, admissions and staff matters. With two years’ experience working in this sector, I provide practical, timely and sensitive support to schools on both day‑to‑day and strategic challenges, helping them navigate complex issues with confidence.