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Course outline: 

The tragic death of Preston Davey has prompted important questions about professional curiosity, information sharing, multi-agency working and safeguarding decision-making.

This SACPA seminar, held alongside sister association The Athena Programme, will explore the safeguarding lessons emerging from the case through the lens of Working Together 2026, helping professionals reflect on how concerns are identified, assessed and acted upon to keep children safe.

Training topics will include:

• Key safeguarding learning from the Preston Davey case
• Working Together 2026: expectations for multi-agency practice
• Professional curiosity and recognising cumulative harm
• Information sharing and professional challenge
• The impact of unconscious bias on decision-making
• Keeping the child’s lived experience at the centre of practice
• Strengthening safeguarding culture and accountability

Learning outcomes:

By the end of the session participants will be able to:

• Understand key safeguarding lessons from the case
• Apply professional curiosity and respectful challenge in practice
• Recognise indicators of cumulative risk and harm
• Strengthen multi-agency information sharing and collaboration
• Reflect on how safeguarding systems can better protect children
• Identify actions to improve safeguarding practice within their own organisation.

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Speaker:

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.

This event will be held jointly with: