Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their impact on safeguarding capability
🏷️ £135-470
📍 Online
This seminar is part of an interactive four-part seminar series designed to strengthen emotional resilience, self-awareness and trauma-informed practice of safeguarding leads and professionals.
Each session will combine research, reflection and practical strategies for those working in high stakes, emotionally charged safeguarding environments.
Sessions are available to purchase as single seminars or as a full series.
Audience:
Safeguarding professionals, pastoral leads, educators, early help practitioners, health and social care staff, mental health professionals and counsellors.
SESSION 1:
Jan 20 | Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their impact on safeguarding capability
Learn how trauma and ACEs affect behaviour, learning, and resilience, both in children and professionals. Discover how to build trauma-informed practice and mitigate the impact of personal ACEs on decision-making.
Training topics will include:
- Emotional resilience, wellbeing and stress management tools to combat burnout
- Reflective insights for improved practice
- Organisational and team culture
- Safer outcomes, community trust and empathetic safeguarding cultures
Learning outcomes:
- Deepen understanding of ACEs and their lifelong effects
- Explore the neuroscience behind trauma and resilience
- Strengthen trauma-informed responses in safeguarding practice.
Other seminars in this series include:
- Feb 23 | Domestic violence: Impact on children and how to identify coercive control
This session examines the hidden dynamics of coercive control and its profound impact on children. Learn to identify subtle indicators and respond safely and effectively. - Mar 17 | Burnout and vicarious trauma among professionals
Frontline safeguarding is emotionally demanding. This restorative session combines evidence-based understanding of vicarious trauma with guided mindfulness and Qi Gong techniques/yoga to promote wellbeing and longevity in the profession. - Apr 21 | Attachment and how it impacts you as a DSL
Explore how attachment styles influence professional judgement, boundaries, and emotional resilience. Gain insight into how your personal experiences shape your safeguarding responses.
Speakers:
Dr Mariya Ali, Director, SACPA
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.
Gaelle Sullivan, Director of Research, Inclusion and IELA
Gaelle is Director of Research, Inclusion and IELA and joined the BSA in January 2023. She is an experienced senior leader and has worked in a range of state and independent schools. She is a qualified SENCO and holds a Masters Degree in Inclusive Education. Prior to joining the BSA, Gaelle was Deputy Head Pastoral, DSL and Head of Boarding at an all-girls independent school in the South-East.
