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Sacpa webinar: Responding to issues of peer-on-peer abuse
18th May 2021 @ 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Jointly organised with Farrer & Co, this webinar will consider peer-on-peer abuse in the boarding, or residential, environment and how to respond. Peer-on-peer abuse is a major safeguarding concern where support and action is required for all parties involved. The residential environment poses a unique setting where the response needs to be particularly sensitively managed by those supporting.
Audience:
This webinar is suitable for practitioners working with boarding students and in residential care/accommodation settings.
- Member rate: £60
- Non-member rate: £120*
*If you would like to become a member and access discounted rates for Sacpa CPD and events, please click here.
Speaker: Alice Cave, Senior Associate, Farrer & Co
Alice advises clients on a wide range of employment matters, both contentious and non-contentious. She has experience of conducting employment tribunal litigation (including a number of high-value claims) from the initial presentation of a claim through to a hearing or settlement.
Alice is experienced in providing day-to-day advisory support to clients, giving prompt advice on issues as they arise. She also assists clients embarking on longer-term projects such as redundancy exercises. Alice regularly advises employers and employees on employment contracts, compromise agreements, policies and procedures and other employment-related documents.
Co-presenter: Sophia Coles, Associate, Farrer & Co
Sophia is an associate working in the firm’s employment team and is a member of the firm’s Safeguarding Unit. She specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment matters, advising both employees and employers. She also advises educational institutions, sports bodies and charities on safeguarding matters, which commonly involve liaison with statutory agencies and regulators.
Sophia qualified into the Employment team in September 2018.
She assists clients with all aspects of employment litigation, and advises in relation to workplace investigations, including disciplinary, grievance and whistleblowing procedures. Sophia provides general employment advice around contracts, policy reviews and settlement agreements, and advises both employers and individuals on issues relating to exits and recruitment.
Sophia advises a range of clients including schools (including specialist schools), universities, charities, sports organisations, business and individuals. Sophia also has experience advising clients participating in public inquiries.
Before joining Farrer & Co, Sophia studied law at the University of Oxford and completed an LLM at the London School of Economics. Since graduating, Sophia has interned at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania, and for the anti-corruption organisation Transparency International at their head office in Berlin. After her internship she continued to work there for almost two years. Shortly before joining Farrers, Sophia spent three months working pro-bono for a team of criminal defence lawyers in Louisiana, representing indigent defendants facing the death penalty.
