Course outline
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) was established in 2015 for England and Wales. In that time the Inquiry have held public hearings and published reports including recommendations for different sectors, including religious organisations, custodial institutions, contemporary institutional contexts, sports, healthcare contexts, schools and residential schools.

The residential schools investigation addressed both state and independent schools and explored how schools and other agencies responded to allegations of sexual abuse by school staff, and addressed broad questions of school culture, governance, leadership training and recruitment. The publication date of the investigation report is March 01, 2022.

Sacpa, in association with Marcus Erooga, independent safeguarding expert and contributor to the Inquiry, will be running a webinar to share initial thoughts about the report and highlight key areas of focus for residential schools to reflect on, develop and improve their practices.

Audience
Governors, Heads, SLT, DSL and other key safeguarding staff, of residential schools, and other professionals interested in learning from the findings of the enquiry into residential school settings.

Cost

• Member rate: £60
• Non-member rate: £120*

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Speaker: Marcus Erooga, independent safeguarding and sexual abuse consultant
Marcus Erooga is an independent safeguarding and sexual abuse Consultant, Researcher and Trainer. From 1999-2018 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield Centre for Applied Childhood, Youth and Family Studies. He spent the majority of his employed career in various positions at the NSPCC, as a practitioner, team manager and Assistant Director for service delivery, as well as service and policy development roles relating to child sexual abuse and sexual offending.

He has authored or edited some 80 publications on child abuse and sex offender-related issues. Most recently this work has focused on organisational safeguarding. In 2016 he co-authored a review of the literature on organisational risk and protective factors for the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse as well as being Expert Witness in a Royal Commission Case Study. He is an Expert Witness for the IICSA (the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse) Residential Schools inquiry and co-authored the Farrer & CO low-level concerns guidance.

As an independent consultant Marcus regularly trains and presents based on his research and undertakes safeguarding work including audits and reviews for a number of organisations. Marcus is a past Editor in Chief and current Associate Editor of the Journal of Sexual Aggression and a past Chair of NOTA (the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abuse) and is now a NOTA Fellow.

Speaker: Dale Wilkins, Director of Safeguarding, Sacpa
Dale Wilkins spent 31 years working in schools, mainly in residential education, of which eleven years were as safeguarding lead. He has also had safeguarding responsibilities in youth group, sports and church settings, was a multi-agency safeguarding trainer for Dudley Safeguarding Children Board and has completed an extensive “Train the Trainer” course with NSPCC.

Speaker: Claire Dan, Head of Safeguarding, Sacpa
Claire is Head of Safeguarding for the Sacpa and BSA Group, leading on the provision of safeguarding advice and support to members and the development and delivery of CPD and safeguarding consultancy services. Claire is a safeguarding specialist and leader with a background in education welfare, youth justice, and early help contexts which have involved a strong focus on diverse and collaborative partnerships, professional development and supervision of front-line safeguarding colleagues, and leading multi-disciplinary teams and projects. For the past 16 years, Claire has been involved with Luton Safeguarding Children Board as a lead multi-agency safeguarding trainer, developing and delivering single and multi-agency safeguarding training, pieces of bespoke consultancy work, and providing a range of safeguarding consultancy on a freelance basis.