Safeguarding update for educational guardians (level 3 certificate)
🏷️ £235 – 470
🎧 Level 3 certificate training for Educational Guardians, DSLs, DDSLs
📍 Online
🎥 Watch live or on catch up
Course outline:
This one-day training course is tailored for Educational Guardians fulfilling the role of Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), but is also highly relevant for others responsible for safeguarding within their organisation. The programme is designed to build the knowledge, skills, and confidence required to meet safeguarding responsibilities with integrity and in line with statutory expectations.
Training topics will include:
- The role of the Educational Guardian and DSL in safeguarding
- Legislative and statutory frameworks
- Thresholds for child protection and key categories of abuse
- Contemporary safeguarding concerns
- Safeguarding files and accurate record-keeping
- Learning from Serious Case Reviews
- Participating in statutory and early help meetings
- Professional conduct, Position of Trust, managing allegations and low-level concerns
- Escalation procedures and whistleblowing.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand legal and regulatory safeguarding requirements and partners
- Understand current safeguarding risks and issues
- Be able to respond appropriately to concerns, including navigating referral pathways and working with external agencies
- Understand and apply thresholds for child protection and early help.
Speaker:
Dale Wilkins, Executive Director, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance
Dale joined the BSA in 2017 to lead safeguarding, inspection, and compliance across the UK, building on his experience as a course tutor since 1998. He works closely with ISI, Ofsted, and DfE, and oversees the Group’s work in Scotland and Wales. A trainer and consultant for BSA and SACPA, Dale is Vice Chair of SAFCAB. Previously, he was a boarding practitioner for 31 years, including Housemaster and Deputy Head at Old Swinford Hospital. He also trains for the Methodist Church, is a trustee of the National Youth String Orchestra, chairs a performing arts charity, and volunteers in sport and Scouting.
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.
