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SUMMARY:Hieda/Sacpa conference - Supporting mental ill-health : spotlight on safeguarding
DESCRIPTION:Course content: \nThis course will spotlight the unhealthy coping strategies used by those suffering from mental illness. The candidates will hear detailed personal experiences  to look at best practice\, professional advice on support and strategies for assisting anyone who is going though treatment and recovery phases of their illness. We will look at how much support can be given and at what point does it become a safeguarding concern Finally there will be the opportunity to discuss strategies in an open forum.  \nTraining topics will include:  \n\nUnhelpful coping strategies \nStrategies to support – personal accounts that look at tools for best practice\nAction plans to support mental illness\nRole of the Mental health lead and mental health first aid team \nOpen forum\nSafeguarding considerations \n\nAudience: \n\nHealthcare professionals\, mental health first aiders\, Mental health leads and medical providers. Safeguarding teams.\n\nView the programme \nProgramme: \n09:00 – 09:45 \nMental health and mental illness: when is it a safeguarding issue?\n\nThis session will explore when mental health issues become a safeguarding issue. It will highlight what we know from child and adult serious case reviews\, safeguarding impacts of adverse childhood experiences\, holding child safeguarding risk linked to mental health outcomes in-house and consider the impact of poor mental health and the importance of self-care in position of trust scenarios.\n \n\nChair: Claire Dan\, Director of Safeguarding\, BSA Group\, and Director\, Sacpa\nSpeaker:\n\nPhillip Beisty\, UKCP reg Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and Safeguarding Lead\, OneBright Mental Health\n\n\n\n10:00 – 11:00 \nCase reviews: eating disorders and suicide \nThis session will use two in-depth case studies surrounding mental illness\, following both the school and pupil journey. We’ll highlight the positives and negatives\, as well as the lessons learnt\, using the case studies as a tool fundamental to positive outcomes.\n \n\nChair: Jane Graham\, Director\, Hieda\nSpeakers:\n\nCamilla Read\, Lead Nurse\, Lord Wandsworth College\nRebecca Thomson\, Partnership Manager\, Tellmi App\n\n\n\n11:00 – 11:30 \nBreak \n11:30 – 12:30 \nWhen do suicidal thoughts become a safeguarding issue? \nThis session will look at case studies of young people struggling with thoughts of harm and emotional distress. This session identifies additional supports used to help a person in the wider team.\n \n\nChair: Claire Dan\, Director of Safeguarding\, BSA Group\, and Director\, Sacpa\nSpeaker:\n\nSarah Ashworth\, Schools and Families Program Director\, Charlie Waller Trust\n\n\n\n12:30 – 13:30 \nLunch Break  \n13:30 – 14:30 \nKeynote: Building #NeuroNinjas: Strategies to Support Young People & Parents Build Mind Management Skills to Manage Our Brain’s Worry System\n \nIn this inspiring\, innovative and engaging keynote Andrew Wright CEO of Action Your Potential (AYP) will share with delegates strategies to support young people\, the staff who support them and their parents and carers to build metacognitive skills to learn to manage the brain’s worry system. \nOur brains are negatively biased and experience anxiety and worry whenever we encounter uncertainty or change.  In an intense 21st century world where the digital realm offers complex\, volatile\, uncertain\, and ambiguous input for our children’s (and our) brains there is an urgent need to help young people and their parents learn to manage the brain’s worry system.  An out–of-control worry system can lead to extreme suffering\, malignant rumination\, oceans of emotional pain and suicidal ideation. \nBy teaching young people and their parents the skills of Mind Management Action Your Potential works to support the powerful aims of the Molly Rose Foundation to raise awareness of the dangers of digital harm for our young people and how to build the daily behaviours to support living in our amazing brains and bodies in balance.  This talk is about empowering and informing everyone who supports children to take daily action to help them learn skills that will help them manage their brain’s worry system not just today\, but in perpetuity.  As a teaser here is a video AYP made to celebrate World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2022. \nAndrew’s preparation and delivering time for this talk is donated for free as part of AYP’s support for the incredibly important and wonderful work of the Molly Rose Foundation. \n\nChair: Jane Graham\, Diretor\, Hieda\nSpeaker:\n\nAndrew Wright\, Former Boarding School Deputy Head and DSL\, Speaker for Action Your Potential\n\n\n\n14:30 – 14.45 \nBreak \n14:45 – 15:45 \nMy story \nAmelia Baron is a successful artist\, using art to express her journey and experience with mental illness. Amelia will talk about her experience with eating disorders\, self-harm\, and suicide. She will also speak frankly about the helpful\, and unhelpful\, support strategies used during her recovery. Amelia offers a unique insight into the journey of a teenager and young adult that will inspire and encourage us to help those in need.\n \n\nChair: Claire Dan\, Director of Safeguarding\, BSA Group\, and Director\, Sacpa\nSpeaker:\n\nAmelia Baron\, Anorexia survivor\n\n\n\n16:00 – 16:45 \nOpen Discussion about mental health issues \nJoin the discussion about support plans\, reasonable adjustments\, duty of care and risk assessments to demonstrate all avenues have been explored. Delegates will have the opportunity to ask questions about the practical implementation of responses to mental health concerns.\n \n\nChair: Claire Dan\, Director of Safeguarding\, BSA Group\, and Director\, Sacpa\nSpeakers:\n\nJane Graham\, Director\, Hieda\nKatrin Viella\, Mental Health and First Aid Lead\, Psychologist\, MindUK and other charities supporting mental health\n\n\n\n16:45 \nConference Close \nCost: \n\nMember Rate: £195\nNon-member Rate: £390\n\nBOOK NOW \n*If you would like to become a member and access discounted rates for Sacpa CPD and events\, please click here. \n\nSpeakers:  \n \nJane Graham\, Director\, Hieda and Health & Wellbeing Director\, BSA Group \nTrained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children\, Jane has over  30 years of nursing background\, Many of them in trauma and intensive care. Whilst in PICU\, she had a number of different roles. Nine years of that included a role as a specialist retrieval nurse (CATS) that entailed travelling around the country to stabilise and bring back critically unstable children. To do this she learned advanced nursing and basic medical skills in resuscitation\, all medical conditions\, and trauma. \nShe went on to teach these skills to student nurses\, qualified nurses and junior doctors as the Practice educator on intensive care. This role also involved lecturing regularly at South Bank University. She has been a DSL for Safeguarding at an independent boarding school where she was Lead Nurse. She is also an instructor for Qualsafe\, an awarding body approved by the HSE. She is currently the director of Hieda and director of health and wellbeing for the BSA Group. \n\n \nClaire Dan\, Director\, Sacpa \nClaire is Director of Safeguarding and Director\, Sacpa and leads 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. Between 2006 and 2013 Claire was involved with Luton Safeguarding Children Board as a lead multi-agency safeguarding trainer\, developing and delivering single and multi-agency safeguarding training\, and since 2013 has delivered pieces of bespoke consultancy work\, and providing a range of safeguarding consultancy on a freelance basis. \n\nPhillip Beisty\, UKCP reg Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and Safeguarding Lead\, OneBright Mental Health \nPhill is safeguarding lead for Onebright Ltd a mental health provider across the UK.  His role involves oversight of safeguarding within the mental health context ensuring that clients accessing mental health care are appropriately safeguarded.  Phill is an integrative practitioner who works creatively to engage children and young people in therapy.  Phill also maintains his own private practise alongside offering supervision and professional development and learning to other therapists. \nPhill ‘s background as a therapist includes working with vulnerable children within maintained and independent special schools and specialist units schools.  Managing and delivering therapy services to a wide range of students with needs ranging from complex trauma and neurodiverse conditions involving leadership in safeguarding in the context of complex safeguarding and multi-agency arrangements. \nPhill has a passion and strong belief that all children and young people should have the best start in life\, and that they can access the appropriate therapy and safeguarding services to ensure this can happen. \n\nCamilla Read\, School Nurse\, Lord Wandsworth College \nCamilla is a school nurse at the independent boarding school\, Lord Wandsworth College in Hampshire where for the last 6 years she has specialised in sports injuries\, eating disorders and pupil vaping support. Prior to joining the college Camilla had a varied nursing careers\, spending a year Nursing in Nepal\, then worked in the Emergency Departments at the Chelsea and Westminster and the North Hampshire Hospital\, where she was a sister and worked as an Emergency Nurse Practitioner. Camilla returned to ED during the pandemic and then subsequently joined the covid vaccination team in Basingstoke. She still works as a bank nurse in ED at North Hampshire Hospital. Camilla graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a BSc (hons) in Adult Nursing in 2002\, is married and has three children. \n\nRebecca Thomson\, Partnership Manager\, Tellmi App \nRebecca Thomson is partnership manager of Tellmi. She is passionate about supporting young people’s mental health and the importance of regulated\, evidence based mental health tools. \n  \n  \n  \n\nSarah Ashworth\, Schools and Families Program Director\, Charlie Waller Trust \nSarah Ashworth is Director of Schools and Families Programmes and a member of the Charlie Waller team delivering consultancy and training in colleges and universities. Sarah holds professional qualifications in counselling and psychotherapy\, nutritional therapy and coaching. She is a Registered and Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) a Member of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)\, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. \nOver the last 30 years\, Sarah has worked with a wide variety of individuals and groups\, particularly children and young people. Prior to joining Charlie Waller\, she led a multidisciplinary team as Head of Mental Health at the University of Warwick. Sarah continues to work in private practice and teaches counselling related and psychopathology modules at the University of Warwick and the University of Oxford. \nA highly experienced mental health practitioner and educator\, Sarah’s passion is supporting others to understand the multitude of biological\, psychological and sociological factors which influence mental health and wellbeing\, providing training and interventions to facilitate wellbeing on an individual and collective level. \n\nAndrew Wright\, Former Boarding School\, Deputy Head and DSL\, Speaker for Action Your Potential \nAndrew has spent 30 years working in 5 secondary schools in the UK and abroad. He has been a headteacher\, a designated safeguarding lead for a large 1500 student secondary school\, and he is a trained SENDCO. Andrew trained as a biologist 35 years ago at the Uni of London and he is passionate about helping children\, parents and carers understand the incredible power of the human brain. A lifelong passion for brain science saw Andrew found Action Your Potential in 2018\, they now work in over 150 schools and support 3000 students in 2021-22 to improve their mental health and unleash their learning. Andrew has an MA in education\, and he is currently studying for an MSc in Neuroscience at King’s College. \nAction Your Potential’s mission is nothing short of bringing about a revolution in our education system\, to ensure every child learns about their amazing brain so they can live inside understanding how it works and how to get the best out of it every day. \n\nAmelia Baron\, Anorexia survivor \nAmelia Baron is originally from Blackburn\, Lancashire\, and now resides in Leeds after graduating from Leeds Arts University in 2018. During her adolescence\, Amelia spent lengthy stays in hospital due to ill mental health. By applying her interest in art and poetry\, Amelia utilised these passions as a cathartic tool for recovery and a means of communication with family and friends. Amelia’s practice combines endurance performance\, installation and spoken word in an attempt to visualise the chaos of the mind and to open up a discourse surrounding mental health in contemporary society. Often using delicate materials and repetitive motions\, Amelia’s work can take a metaphorical stance on the fragility and vulnerability of mental wellbeing. A prize winner at the Aon Community Art Awards 2019 and recently shortlisted for the 2020 Government Art Collection\, she hopes to continue supporting her contemporaries and engaging with the community through means of social art and performance. \n\n \nKatrin Viella\, Head of Training Academy – Govox Wellbeing \nKatrin is an experienced mental health consultant and senior mental health trainer with an academic background in business and clinical psychology. She initially started out in cross-cultural leadership development and then gained experience in the clinical field working with people with most complex and severe\, enduring mental illness. Combining her training background and clinical experience she then specialised in mental health training. She established and led a fully accredited Mental Health Training Academy for the charity ‘Mind’. Her training division delivered therapeutic counselling qualifications\, whole school approaches and whole organisation mental health programs in various organisations. Over the years Katrin has trained headmasters\, GPs\, A&E staff\, education professionals\, senior executives\, middle managers and staff across all sectors and different industries. She is also a licensed and highly rated MHFA and Youth MHFA trainer and has trained hundreds of MHFAs. Her expertise lies in safe implementation strategies for these support networks. Katrin now works as an Associate Consultant and Trainer with some of the largest national and global organisations on mental health culture change programs embedding prevention\, earliest intervention\, and crisis support. Katrin is also an expert in workplace suicide prevention and cross-cultural mental health aspects. She is an advocate for earliest intervention\, post-traumatic growth and de-medicalisation of mental health approaches.
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/6785/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Sacpa/BSA - Annual Safeguarding Conference
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nThis year’s Sacpa Annual Safeguarding Conference promises to bring a day packed with expert speakers from a range of disciplines and perspectives who aim to inform\, challenge and invigorate delegates on a range of key and contemporary safeguarding topics and learning. Addressing key issues from our members\, sessions will consider the current safeguarding landscape\, mental health\, exploitation\, working with survivors and final recommendations from IICSA inquiry into residential settings. \nSacpa and BSA will facilitate questions directly from members to our experts throughout the day and encourage delegates to come prepared with questions for our panels. \nTraining topics will include: \n\n24/7 Safeguarding: recent developments\, future hopes\nMental health: Risk\, thresholds\, access to services and developing in-house responses for all\nPathways to Exploitation: The landscape of prevalence\, prevention and response\nE-safety: TikTok\, trends and teens\nCaring for people harmed by abuse: the needs of witnesses and survivors\nIICSA Final Report: Key messages and summary from the process\, various reports and findings\n\n Learning outcomes:  \n\nUpdate on the current safeguarding landscape\, recent developments\, future hopes and challenges\nExplore the current challenges and service availability for mental health and emotional wellbeing including case study reflection on challenges and solutions\nIncrease knowledge about pathways to strands of exploitation\, vulnerabilities\, prevalence\, prevention\, and response\nExplore the links between social media use and its impact on the child-on-child safeguarding agenda\nUpdate on experiences and best practice from working with people who are surviving current and non-recent abuse\nHear from key players in the IICSA inquiries into residential settings. Increase knowledge of the final outcomes and recommendations of the residential inquiry published last month including lessons learned and pathways forward\n\nProgramme: \n09:00-09:45 \n24/7 Safeguarding: recent developments\, future hopes \nOur keynote speaker will review the current landscape of safeguarding through the lens of the most recent Girl Guides Attitude Survey 2022. This survey gives an annual snapshot and is widely quoted in guidance. How far have we come\, and what else do we need to address. \n\nChair: Claire Dan\, Director\, SACPA\nSpeaker:\n\nGeraldine Costello\, Head of Safe Practice\, Girlguiding\n\n\n\n09:45-10:00 \nBreak \n10:00-11:00 \nMental health: Risk\, thresholds\, access to services and developing in-house responses for all \nThe management of risk and access to specialist services remains a key priority for safeguarding leaders. This session explores the current challenges and service availability and reflects on challenges and solutions from practical case study. \n\nChair: Dale Wilkins\, Senior Director\, BSA Group\nSpeaker:\n\nJane Graham\, Director\, Hieda\n\n\n\n11:00-11:30 \nBreak \n11:30-12:30 \nPathways to Exploitation: The landscape of prevalence\, prevention and response \nIt is recognised that the prevalence of life circumstances and individual vulnerabilities are over-represented in children and adults known to have been abused by exploitation. Our expert speakers in this session share their knowledge about pathways to strands of exploitation and share thoughts on prevalence\, prevention\, and response. \n\nChair: Dale Wilkins\, Senior Director\, BSA Group\nSpeaker:\n\nNikki Holmes\, Founder\, Safer Together\nClaire Dan\, Director\, SACPA\n\n\n\n12:30-13:30 \nLunch \n13:30-14:30 \nE-safety: TikTok trends and teens \nAs safeguarding leaders prepare for the online safety bill to become law. E-safety and digital safeguarding are never far away from media coverage or on the ground safeguarding practice. In this session out experts explore the links between social media use and its impact on the child-on-child safeguarding agenda. \n\nChair: Aileen Kane\, Deputy CEO & COO\, BSA Group\nSpeakers:\n\nKarl Hopwood\nDavid Smellie\, Partner\, Farrer & Co.\n\n\n\n14:30-15:00 \nBreak \n15:00-15:45 \nCaring for people harmed by abuse: the needs of witnesses and survivors \nIn this session our experts share experiences and best practice from working with people who are surviving abuse. Organisations and safeguarding leaders continue to develop protocols and practice in their work with survivors of non-recent abuse and those who are currently in need or are involved with witness services. \n\nChair: Dale Wilkins\, Senior Director\, BSA Group\nSpeakers:\n\nJohn Edward\, Director\, SCIS\nMartin Reader\, Head\, Cranleigh School \n\n\n\n15:45-16:00 \nBreak \n16:00-16:45 \nIICSA Final Report: Key messages and summary from the process\, various reports and findings \nWe hear from key players in the IICSA inquiries into residential settings. In this session out speakers review the process of the inquiry and their involvement and give us their perspectives on the final outcomes and recommendations published last month\, lessons learned and pathways forward for safeguarding leaders. \n\nChair: Claire Dan\, Director\, SACPA\nSpeakers:\n\nFiona Scolding KC\nMarcus Erooga – Safeguarding Consultant and Expert witness at IICSA\n\n\n\nCost: \n\nMember Rate: £195\nAdditional Full Member Fee: £100\nAffiliate Member Fee: £295\nAdditional Affiliate Member Fee: £130\nNon-member Rate: £390*\nSacpa / BSA Full Member Whole School Rate: £450\n\nBOOK NOW \n*If you would like to become a member and access discounted rates for Sacpa CPD and events\, please click here. \n\nSpeakers:  \n \nClaire Dan\, Director of Safeguarding\, BSA Group and Director\, Sacpa \nClaire is Director of Safeguarding and Director\, Sacpa and leads 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.  Between 2006 and 2013 Claire was involved with Luton Safeguarding Children Board as a lead multi-agency trainer\, developing and delivering single and multi-agency safeguarding training\, and since 2013 has delivered pieces of bespoke consultancy work\, and providing a range of safeguarding consultancy on a freelance basis. \n\nGeraldine Costello\, Head of Safe Practice\, Girlguiding  \nGeraldine is the Head of Safe Practice at Girlguiding and is responsible for creating a safe environment for its members\, ensuring they are protected from harm\, abuse and exploitation.\nShe has extensive safeguarding experience having worked with the Metropolitan Police for 31 years\, dedicated to protecting vulnerable groups\, focussing on domestic abuse\, protecting adults and children at risk\, managing violent and sex offenders and working with communities.\nShe is committed to driving improvements in safeguarding standards and practice across charity sectors and government as a panel member for Department of Education\, England Netball\, a Safeguarding advisor to Surviving Economic Abuse\, and as a Safeguarding school governor. \n\nDale Wilkins\, Senior Director\, BSA and BSA Group \nDale joined BSA Group during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s accredited training programme. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for Sacpa and BSA Group\, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter\, and the Annual Safeguarding conference. He has completed “Training for Trainers” with NSPCC and was for 10 years a multi-agency safeguarding trainer for Dudley Safeguarding Children Board. \nFor 31 years Dale was practitioner in boarding schools\, and a BSA course tutor since 1998. He was also for 10 years a school Designated Safeguarding Lead. Dale is currently developing new safeguarding products for Sacpa. \n\n \nJane Graham\, Director\, Hieda \nTrained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children\, Jane has over 30 years of nursing background\, Many of them in trauma and intensive care. Whilst in PICU\, she had a number of different roles. Nine years of that included a role as a specialist retrieval nurse (CATS) that entailed travelling around the country to stabilise and bring back critically unstable children. To do this she learned advanced nursing and basic medical skills in resuscitation\, all medical conditions\, and trauma. \nShe went on to teach these skills to student nurses\, qualified nurses and junior doctors as the Practice educator on intensive care. This role also involved lecturing regularly at South Bank University. She has been a DSL for Safeguarding at an independent boarding school where she was Lead Nurse. She is also an instructor for Qualsafe\, an awarding body approved by the HSE. She is currently the director of Hieda and director of health and wellbeing for the BSA \n\nNikki Holmes\, Founder\, Safer Together  \nAfter graduating with a degree in Criminology and Psychology\, Nikki began her career as a police officer with West Midlands Police where she enjoyed a variety of different roles. This is where her passion for working with and supporting vulnerable young people began. In 2008\, and in response to increases in youth violence in Coventry\, she wrote and co-produced with young people “Get My Point” a piece of youth drama which successfully contributed to the reduction in weapon assisted crime. This work saw her presented with a Chief Constable’s Commendation. \nHowever\, it was Nikki became an Offender Manager working with some of the most prolific and complex young offenders that she identified that most\, if not all of children and young people known to the Criminal Justice System\, had a variety of vulnerabilities and unmet need. The recognition of the victim offender overlap resulted in a career change\, moving from policing into the field of substance misuse. \nAs the service manager of a young person’s substance misuse service in Warwickshire\, Nikki developed a number of pathways to improve service provision and support for children who were not actively misusing substances themselves\, but were nonetheless impacted by substance misuse due to having a parent or sibling with a substance dependency. This work was recognised by the Care Quality Commission as being innovative practice which should be replicated nationally. \nNikki went on to work for the Care Quality Commission in 2017 as a Children’s Services Inspector. In this role\, she contributed to and led a number of national reviews\, such as Children Looked After and Safeguarding (CLAS) reviews\, Joint Targeted Area Inspections (JTAI’s) and Local Area Special Educational Needs and Disability Inspections (LA SENDs). She also lent her expertise in the fields of Safeguarding and SEND to develop a number of thematic reviews such as the Control and Restraint in Children’s Home review which is awaiting publication. She remains a bank inspector for the commission. \nIn 2020 Nikki founded and launched Safer Together\, her own training and consultancy enterprise. Safer Together was commissioned in September by Coventry and Warwickshire CCG and Coventry Local Authority Public Health to lead on a Child Exploitation Project on their behalf. Safer Together recognises the challenges associated with navigating the current complexities of the safeguarding landscape and is on hand to support statutory and non-statutory organisations with any aspect of training and consultancy related to child safeguarding and SEND. \n\nAileen Kane\, Deputy CEO & COO\, BSA Group \nAileen is Deputy CEO & COO of BSA Group. Aileen leads operations at BSA providing guidance and training and works closely with government departments\, local authorities and other agencies to support members. She heads up the group’s work to find places for refugee children escaping from conflict countries and is also a trustee for a children’s charity. \n\nKarl Hopwood \nKarl is an esafety expert and a member of UKCCIS (UK Council for Child Internet Safety) and sits on the advisory board for the UK Safer Internet Centre and the education advisory board for CEOP. Karl has worked for a number of key players in the UK and abroad including CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre)\, BECTA (British Educational and Communications Technology Agency)\, the European Commission and several Local Authorities within the UK. \n\nDavid Smellie\, Partner\, Farrer & Co. \nDavid leads Farrer & Co’s Safeguarding Unit. He has been heavily involved in advising clients on safeguarding matters over the last 15 years and\, as such\, he has witnessed the positive impact of regulatory change over the period. David led the Farrer & Co team which acted as Solicitors to the Independent Review by Hugh Davies QC into the criminal conduct of William Vahey in 2014. David has also acted as child protection governor at three schools\, and is recognised as the UK’s top-ranked schools lawyer in Chambers UK \n\nJohn Edward\, Director\, SCIS \nJohn was appointed Director (CE) of SCIS in April 2010\, having previously been Head of the European Parliament’s Office in Scotland for 6 years.  Prior to that he worked in Brussels\, as EU Policy Manager for Scotland Europa in Brussels\, and for the European Policy Centre.  He studied in St Andrews\, Glasgow and Siena\, before making his way back to Edinburgh – but is now Colombian by marriage. \n  \n\nMartin Reader\, Head\, Cranleigh School   \nMartin Reader has been Headmaster of Cranleigh School since 2014. He began his teaching career at St Edward’s Oxford\, before moving to Oundle School and then to Reigate Grammar School where he was Senior Deputy Head. Prior to moving to Cranleigh\, he was Headmaster of Wellington School\, Somerset for eight years. Passionate about boarding\, he served as Chair of the Boarding Schools’ Association in 2018\, and Vice Chair in 2017 and 2019. \n  \n\nFiona Scolding KC  \nFiona’s practice focusses upon public law challenges in a wide variety of contexts concerning both local and central government and non governmental departmental bodies. She has particular expertise in areas concerning children and vulnerable adults\, with a focus upon education\, the Court of Protection\, healthcare\, community care\, equality\, human rights and discrimination\, but also has experience in areas as varied as immigration\, prisons\, social security and general public law work. \nFiona’s work for government departments has led her to develop an expertise in public procurement\, and she has been involved (on behalf of the Legal Aid Agency) with many large scale challenges to procurement exercises since 2010. \nFiona has been recommended by the Legal 500 for her work in education law since 2002\, and is also recommended by them in administrative & public law and civil liberties & human rights.  She is recommended by Chambers & Partners for her work in education law alongside the Court of Protection and local government. \nFiona has a commitment to pro bono work. She also is on the EHRC panel counsel since 2010\, and has a keen appreciation and understanding of equality and rights legislation.  She was a member of the Attorney General’s B panel from 2013 to 2017. \nFiona is currently instructed as senior counsel to the Anglican and residential schools investigations on behalf of IICSA (the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse). \nFiona is joint head of the Public Law Group at Landmark Chambers.  \n\nMarcus Erooga – Safeguarding Consultant and Expert witness at IICSA \nMarcus Erooga is an independent safeguarding and sexual abuse Consultant\, Researcher & 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. \nHe 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 & 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. \nAs an independent consultant Marcus regularly trains and presents based on his research and undertakes safeguarding work including audits & 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.
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/sacpa-bsa-annual-safeguarding-conference/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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