Working with Muslim Individuals and Children: Safeguarding and Islamic Frameworks
Working with Muslim Individuals and Children: Safeguarding and Islamic Frameworks
🏷️ From £90
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📍 Online
Course outline:
This webinar explores how Islamic frameworks, culture, and family systems intersect with safeguarding practice when working with Muslim children, young people, and families. It examines concepts such as childhood, consent, welfare, honour, and protection within Islamic jurisprudence and contemporary safeguarding contexts.
Why attend:
- Develop cultural humility safeguarding practice with Muslim individuals and families.
- Understand how Islamic beliefs, culture, and family dynamics may influence safeguarding responses.
- Strengthen confidence in addressing sensitive issues while maintaining child-centred practice.
- Explore how the prevention of harm and welfare principles within Islam can support safeguarding work.
This session will explore:
- Islamic perspectives on childhood, welfare, and protection.
- Differences across Islamic legal schools and safeguarding implications.
- Honour, shame, family structures, and disclosure barriers.
- Safeguarding issues including FGM, honour-based abuse, and physical discipline.
- Balancing safeguarding responsibilities with cultural and religious sensitivity.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of the session participants will be able to:
- Understand key Islamic concepts relevant to safeguarding.
- Distinguish between religion, culture, and harmful practices.
- Recognise barriers to disclosure and engagement.
- Apply culturally informed and child-centred safeguarding approaches with greater confidence.
Speaker: Mariya Ali, Director of SACPA, and Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group
Mariya Ali is Director of SACPA and an internationally recognised safeguarding and child protection expert. With over two decades’ multidisciplinary experience in legal, academic, advisory, and leadership roles, she is strongly committed to advancing child rights and welfare. Formerly Deputy Minister in the Maldives, she led national reforms in child protection policy and legislation. Internationally, she has worked with UNICEF, Save the Children, and Lumos Foundation on child sexual abuse, exploitation, and systems reform across South Asia and beyond. An academic and practitioner, Mariya has published widely and specialises in trauma-informed, survivor-centred, and systems-based safeguarding approaches.
