Annual safeguarding conference
🏷️ From £250
🎧 All those involved in safeguarding
With significant changes to safeguarding guidance now in effect, this conference provides an essential update for safeguarding professionals across health, social care, sports, and the voluntary sector. Focusing on Working Together 2026, Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 and contemporary safeguarding practice, delegates will gain practical insights into creating resilient organisations, strengthening safeguarding culture and improving outcomes for children and young people.
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This event will be held jointly with:
09:30 – 10:00 Registration & refreshments
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome: The Safeguarding Journey from Regulation to Reflection
An introduction to the conference theme, exploring how regulation, relationships, reasoning and reflection contribute to effective safeguarding and resilient organisations.
10:15 – 10:45 Regulate Before We Educate
An immersive movement-based opening experience demonstrating how regulation through movement and sensory experiences supports learning, well-being and effective safeguarding practice. This session will also focus building on our cultural humility.
- Speaker: Julene Robinson, Movement Specialist
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:45 Beyond Compliance: Reflective Practice as a Safeguarding Intervention
Discover how reflective practice strengthens professional judgement, support staff wellbeing and helps build a positive safeguarding culture.
11:15 – 12:00 The Child’s Voice in Action: Recruitment, Culture and Accountability
Learn how involving children in recruitment and organisational decision making can strengthen safeguarding culture and accountability.
12:00 – 12:45 Trauma-Informed Workplaces: What Organisations Can Learn from Care Experience
Explore how psychologically safe workplaces, informed by care experience, can improve wellbeing, retention and safeguarding practice.
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:15 Teenage Relationship Abuse: Recognising Coercion, Control and Harm
Gain practical insights into recognising and responding to abuse in adolescent relationships, including coercive control and technology- facilitated harm.
14:15 – 15:00 Safeguarding in 2026: Working Together, KCSIE and What Inspectors Expect
A practical update on the latest safeguarding, legislation and inspection expectations for education and safeguarding professionals.
15:00 – 15:15 Refreshments
15:15 – 15:45 Artificial Intelligence, Sport and Safeguarding
Explore the safeguarding implications of AI, deepfakes, digital identity and emerging online risks for children and young people.
15:45 – 16:30 Closing Keynote: Why Regulation, Relationships and Resilience in key for effective Safeguarding
Bringing together the day’s key themes, this keynote explores how organisations can embed resilient, relationship-based safeguarding cultures.
16:30 – 16:45 Annual Safeguarding Awards and Close
