🏷️ From £235
🎧 DSLs, Safeguarding leads, Pastoral staff, HR teams, Governors
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This conference aims to support safeguarding leaders and practitioners to understand emerging digital harms, review regulatory and technological responses, and translate learning into safer organisational policies and practice.

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Programme:

09:30 – 09:45 Opening Plenary: Digital Safeguarding at a Critical Juncture

This session will discuss big picture trends from AI harm generation to regulatory shifts and child and youth mental health impacts.

09:45 – 10:30 Digital Harms Deep Dive Parallel Tracks: Technology-Facilitated Abuse & AI Risks

This session will focus on how emerging technologies are changing the nature, scale, and concealment of abuse and what this means for organisational safeguarding responsibilities.

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – 11:45 DBS checks and SCR

This session will focus DBS eligibility and how the  Single Central Record (SCR) functions as a critical safeguarding mechanism and how poor understanding, weak ownership, or over-reliance on compliance can leave organisations unsafe.

11:45 – 12:45 Practice, Culture & Organisational Safeguarding: Youth voice

The focus of this session is on embedding safeguarding into the culture and everyday practices of organisations, particularly around digital safety, while actively involving young people in shaping these safe spaces.

12:45 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:15 Why Policies Fail Without Reflective Practice

The focus of this session is on embedding safeguarding into everyday workforce practice through supervision, reflective thinking, and relational approaches, rather than relying solely on written policies or procedural checklists.

14:15 – 15:00 Cultural competence and trauma informed practice

This session will focus on why cultural competence and trauma-informed practice are critical to creating safe, inclusive organisations where individuals feel understood, respected, and protected. It will explore how these approaches strengthen safeguarding by recognising lived experiences, addressing systemic barriers, and reducing harm.

15:00 – 15:15 Break

15:15 – 16:15 Why People Don’t Disclose and Why Organisations Miss It

Attachment, Trauma & Organisational Safety: Why People Don’t Disclose — and Why Organisations Miss It

16:00 – 16:30 Conference close