Managing Allegations and Low-level Concerns
🏷️ £90-180, with additional tickets from £45
🎧 Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs), Deputy DSLs, Senior Leaders, Trustees, Governors, Values Guardians, Nominated Persons for low-level concern management, and professionals involved in safer recruitment and HR across all sectors
📍 Online
🎥 Watch live or on catch up
Course outline:
Effectively managing allegations and low-level concerns is critical to fostering a safer organisational culture and fulfilling legal and compliance responsibilities. This webinar offers a clear and practical guide for safeguarding leaders on how to respond with transparency, consistency, and professionalism.
Training topics:
- Identifying and managing allegations and low-level concerns
- Embedding safer working cultures through robust policies and procedures
- Behavioural expectations and their role in safer recruitment
- Understanding referral processes: when, how, and to whom
- Promoting whole-organisation awareness through training and signposting
- Approaching difficult conversations with clarity and confidence
- Ensuring transparency, accountability, and consistency in safeguarding responses.
Learning outcomes:
- Recognise the role of clear safeguarding policies in managing concerns
- Strengthen organisational culture to prioritise safety and accountability
- Implement effective training and signposting strategies across teams
- Apply best-practice approaches to managing low-level concerns and allegations
- Navigate sensitive conversations with confidence and professionalism.
Speaker:

Alice leads all safeguarding and child protection matters at the school, working closely with three Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads including the Deputy Head (Pastoral), the Deputy Head (Boarding), and the Safeguarding Co-ordinator, Alice also manages the school’s mental health provision. Alice holds a degree in Social Work and has extensive experience within Children’s Social Care. Before joining Eton, she served as the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) for Kingston, Richmond, Windsor and Maidenhead, where she oversaw child protection services and collaborated with schools, police, health, and other partner agencies. She also chaired the National LADO Network, promoting best practice in safeguarding nationwide.