Organisational risk assessments
Thursday 11 September,11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
🏷️ £90-180, with additional tickets from £45
📍 Online
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Course outline:
This webinar explores essential principles for developing and reviewing safeguarding policies and procedures within organisations. It will highlight how to align your safeguarding approach with current legislation and best practice guidance. The session will also cover how to carry out and document a safeguarding risk assessment tailored to the specific needs of your setting.
- Evaluating safeguarding policies and procedures.
- Assessing safeguarding risk and producing relevant risk assessments.
- Relating documentation to relevant legislation and guidance.
- Increase understanding of relevant safeguarding audit procedures.
- Develop knowledge of risk assessment procedures.
- Understand how to record, report and evaluate key findings
Speaker:
Dale Wilkins, Executive Director, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance
Dale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. Dale leads on all safeguarding, inspection and compliance matters for BSA Group, including liaising with ISI, Ofsted and DfE in England, and leading on the group’s work in Scotland and Wales. He trains and delivers consultancy extensively for BSA and SACPA and is Vice Chair of the Group’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Advisory Board (SAFCAB).
For 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board, is a safeguarding trainer for the Methodist Church, is a trustee of the National Youth String Orchestra and chair of a small performing arts charity. He also holds volunteer roles in sport and in the Scout Association.
