🏷️ £135-270
🎧 Trustees, Governors, and Leaders with oversight of safeguarding. Colleagues in education, social care, youth services, early help, charity and third sector organisations with an interest and responsibility for safeguarding.
📍 Online

Course outline:

The phrase ‘affluent neglect’ presents something of a perceived oxymoron. If there is affluence, how can there also be neglect?

Sadly, affluent neglect is a real issue and concern, and can be particularly challenging to identify and manage where signs and indicators may look different to those in under-resourced families.

The power relations between safeguarding practitioners and parents can provide an additional layer of complexity where there is resistance to intervention and support, and the signs of neglect can often be emotional/mental rather than physical.

This interactive seminar that also involves delegates in group work and reflective practice draws on messages from research and practical application to explore affluent neglect and working with affluent parents.

Training topics will include:

• What is affluent neglect?
• Identification and support
• Understanding and working with the power relations between safeguarding practitioner and affluent parents/carers
• Case study example for group-work and reflective practice.

Learning outcomes:

• Develop an increased understanding of what affluent neglect is, and how to spot it
• Consider strategies to provide support
• Unpick the power relations between safeguarding practitioner and affluent parents that potentially impact safeguarding effective safeguarding practice
• Review the practical application of identification, and implementation of strategies for managing affluent neglect through case study review.

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Speakers:

Tom Hadcroft, Deputy School Director, Aiglon College

Tom Hadcroft is currently serving as a Deputy School Director at Aiglon College in Switzerland (since April 2025). His primary focus in this role is on boarding, wellbeing and safeguarding.

Prior to this appointment, he was the Headmaster of Berkhamsted Boys School in the UK, and before that, the Senior Deputy Head at DLD College London, focusing on pastoral and boarding issues. Hadcroft’s expertise extends to being an International School Accreditor for CIS and a course tutor for the Boarding Schools’ Association. He is also a Mental Health First Aid Youth instructor and holds an MEd in Educational Leadership.

Alice Vicary-Stott, Director of Safeguarding, DSL, Senior Mental Health Lead, Eton College

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.