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SUMMARY:Safeguarding in Boarding Schools
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90 (discounted rates for BSA members)\n🎧 Heads\, Designated Safeguarding Leads\, Houseparents\, Boarding Managers\, Pastoral and Residential Staff\, Governors and all professionals working within boarding provision.\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up \n\nBoarding schools create rich\, diverse\, and life-shaping experiences for children and young people. However\, they also present a unique safeguarding challenge. \nThis focused 1-hour webinar is designed to equip boarding staff\, DSLs and leaders with the knowledge\, skills and confidence to keep boarders safe within a 24-hour residential environment. \nWhat This Webinar Covers \n\nUnique safeguarding risks in boarding environments\nVulnerability factors for domestic and international boarders\nPeer-on-peer abuse\, online harms and night-time supervision\nManaging disclosures\, low-level concerns & staff boundaries\nEmbedding a strong safeguarding culture in residential life\nLeadership and governance responsibilities\n\nKey Takeaways \n\nUnderstand the distinctive safeguarding pressures in boarding settings\nStrengthen supervision\, culture and boundaries in residential life\nImprove student trust\, reporting and participation\nRespond confidently to concerns and disclosures\nEnhance leadership oversight and evidence for inspection\n\nWhy Attend? \nThis session provides practical tools\, real examples\, and sector-specific insights to help you create safer\, more nurturing boarding communities and built on strong relationships\, visibility\, and proactive safeguarding practice. \nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker: Dale Wilkins FTIOB\, Executive Director\, BSA Group Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance \nDale joined the BSA in 2017 to lead safeguarding\, inspection\, and compliance across the UK\, building on his experience as a course tutor since 1998. He works closely with ISI\, Ofsted\, and the DfE\, while also overseeing the Group’s work in Scotland and Wales. A trainer and consultant for BSA and SACPA\, he is Vice Chair of SAFCAB. Dale previously spent 31 years as a boarding practitioner\, including roles as Housemaster and Deputy Head at Old Swinford Hospital. Beyond education\, he trains for the Methodist Church\, is a charity trustee\, chairs a performing arts organisation\, and volunteers widely.
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/safeguarding-in-boarding-schools/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Online,Webinar
ORGANIZER;CN="The Safeguarding and Child Protection Association":MAILTO:info@sacpa.org.uk
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SUMMARY:SACPA Advanced Certificate in Child Safeguarding Practice: option 2
DESCRIPTION:We offer a self-funding route for all courses.  We can arrange payment plans for manageable monthly amounts to make training accessible and affordable.  To find out more\, please e-mail Liz McDonald at liz.mcdonald@bsagroup.org.uk \n\nThe SACPA Advanced Certificate in Child Safeguarding Practice is a certificate programme for safeguarding managers and leads\, heads of safeguarding\, safeguarding hub managers and co-ordinators.  It has been developed to support safeguarding colleagues from a diversity of sectors to supplement and extend designated safeguarding lead training.  This programme may also support the safeguarding practice of behaviour leads\, SENCO’s\, pastoral support leaders and Designated Teachers for Looked After Children. \nKey areas of contemporary safeguarding practice are explored in depth with particular attention to their application to leadership and management of safeguarding\, interface with governors\, trustees and board members responsible for oversight and scrutiny and the multi-agency safeguarding system beyond. \nSACPA  Certificate in Child Safeguarding Practice – Option 2 \n\nStudy Day 1 : February 10th\, 2026\nStudy Day 2 : March 18th\, 2026\nStudy Day 3 : May 12th\, 2026\nStudy Day 4 : June 22th\, 2026\n\n\nAll Study Days will be held online via Zoom. \nTimings: 10:00-15:30 GMT/BST \nCourse Outline for Option 2 \n\nSexual Violence\nSafer Organisations\nMental Health\nDigital Safeguarding\n\nTO BEGIN OPTION 2 IN FEBRUARY CLICK HERE \nThe aims of the SACPA Advanced Certificate course are to: \n\nProvide development for safeguarding leads to explore beyond Designated Safeguarding Lead Training\nFocus on specific contemporary safeguarding subjects and developments\nSupport management and leadership of safeguarding\, bridging the gap between operational delivery\, the provision of management information to support strategic planning\, oversight and working in partnership with trustees and governance bodies and local safeguarding partners\nIncrease confidence and competence through opportunities to study and develop expertise in specific areas of professional interest\nEnhance a professional career path in safeguarding and to provide SACPA recognition of your achievement and successful completion of the course\nTo contribute to improved practice and raising standards within the safeguarding setting\nFoster reflection and critical evaluation of safeguarding practice and professional issues\, and to provide opportunities to share experience and good practice with colleagues.\n\nHow is the course organised? \nThe course is organised around a combination of four intensive on-line study days which contain a variety of teaching methods and opportunities to learn in different ways\, which include short lectures\, presentations and discussions led by students\, together with group problem solving exercises and case studies. \nGroup discussion is a particularly important aspect of this course\, enabling delegates to look at the theory in light of their own practical experience. Students will be encouraged to contribute ideas\, opinions and questions\, taking responsibility for their own learning\, whilst contributing to the learning of the group as a whole. \nThe course is run by senior members of the SACPA staff.  Each delegate will have an experienced SACPA Tutor who attends the study days. \nCourse Assessment \nDelegates may choose assessment via portfolio or assignment. \nMaria Putz : Interim Head of Training (Sexual Violence and Safeguarding) \nMaria joined LimeCulture in January 2019 as one of the Training Managers. Maria has been involved in the development and delivery of Preventing Sexual Misconduct Education (PSME) and the Sexual Misconduct Liaison Officer (SMLO) Model helping schools and colleges to create a whole school approach in their prevention and response to sexual misconduct.  Maria has also presented nationally and internationally with a focus on healthy relationships and safeguarding in sport. Maria is committed to improving services for those affected by Sexual Violence through building knowledge\, confidence and skills in frontline workers. \nMost recently Maria has become the interim Head of Training leading in the development and delivery of training for LimeCulture in their Sexual Violence\, Safeguarding\, Education and University work. \nPrior to joining the LimeCulture Team she was a specialist-safeguarding nurse for the largest children’s hospital in the UK. She has also worked as an Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (ISVA) and a Crisis Worker at a Sexual Assault Referral Centre. \n\nKarl Hopwood : E-Safety Expert \nKarl Hopwood is an esafety expert. He is a member of UKCCIS (UK Council for Child Internet Safety) and sits on the advisory board for the new UK Safer Internet Centre. 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. As an ex headteacher\, he continues to work closely with children\, young people\, parents and teachers to develop safer online behaviours and the promotion of digital literacy. Karl works closely with the Boarding Schools’ Association and supports many of their schools. He is also an in-house consultant for INSAFE which is the coordinating node of the EU safer internet programme. \n\nMarcus Erooga : Independent Safeguarding Consultant \nMarcus 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 on grooming 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 range of organisations. Marcus is a past Editor in Chief 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-advanced-certificate-in-child-safeguarding-practice-option-2/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Accredited Training,Online
ORGANIZER;CN="BSA":MAILTO:hello@bsa.org
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SUMMARY:Digital Safeguarding Conference
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £235 – discounted rate for additional members\n🎧 All those working with children\, young people or vulnerable individuals\, including DSLs\, DSOs and DDSLs\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up \n\nIn an age where digital technology is included in every part of life; from education and work to social life\, the practice of safeguarding has fundamentally changed. Especially in the digital landscape.  Protecting young people and vulnerable individuals today means engaging with complex online environments and emerging digital risks\, not just traditional face-to-face contexts.  The Digital Safeguarding Conference is a practical\, forward-looking event for professionals dedicated to evolving safeguarding practice to keep pace with digital transformation. You’ll gain fresh insights from expert voices\, explore real-world challenges from AI to online harms\, and be equipped with strategies you can apply immediately in your organisation or as a parent.  \nBOOK NOW \n\nEVENT PROGRAMME\n09:00 – 09:05 Welcome from Director of SACPA  \n\n09:05 – 09:15 Introduction to the Current and Emerging Risks \nIn the age of hyperconnectivity\, safeguarding both children and adults can be a challenge. Our speaker will set the scene for emerging issues internationally as well at the UK.  \nSpeaker: Bharti Patel\, Human Rights Advocate and Former CEO ECPAT UK  \n\n09:15 – 09:45 Policy into Practice  \nSpeakers will focus on developing robust digital safeguarding policies and embedding digital literacy and resilience in training in schools. They will shar their experiences of some practical templates for schools\, charities\, and local authorities.  \nSpeakers: Hoong Kwan CEO\, SEQRD & Arabella Northey\, Head of Partnerships and Communications\, SEQRD \n\n09:45 – 10:00 Break  \n\n10:00 – 10:45 Understanding Digital Risk and Radicalisation \nOur expert speaker will highlight the pathways to radicalisation including trauma\, the intersection of gaming\, gender\, and online violence and challenging toxic narratives while promoting positive masculinity\, and finally early identification within schools and educational institutions.   \nSpeaker: Dr Juncal Fernandez Garayzabal \n\n10:45 – 11:00 Break  \n\n11:00 – 12:00 Practical Tools for Managing Digital Risk  \nOur speakers explore the important role of parents and of setting healthy digital habits at a young age that includes setting limits and boundaries\, while acknowledging the benefits of the virtual world virtual world provides fun\, creative learning and a space for relaxation.   \n11:00 – 11:30 Balancing Parenting and Children’s Leisure in Boarding in the age of Digital Connectivity \nThis session explores the importance of setting healthy digital habits at a young age that includes setting limits and boundaries\, while acknowledging the benefits of the virtual world virtual world provides fun\, creative learning and a space for relaxation.   \nSpeaker: Tom Hollyer\, Housemaster\, Uppingham School \n\n11:30 – 12:00 Digital Parenting  \nSpeaker: Dr. Elizabeth Milovidov\, Founder\, Digital Parenting Coach.com \n\n12:00 – 13:00 Lunch\n  \n\n13:00 – 14:00 Keynote: The Future of Digital Safeguarding  \nThis session will focus on emerging online harms especially related to AI\, deepfakes\, and what is new in Online Safety in 2026\, and what we should be planning for.   \nSpeaker: Karl Hopwood\, Independent E-Safety Consultant and SACPA Chair \n\n14:00 – 14:15 Break  \n\n14:15 – 14:45 Digital Resilience at Highfield and Brookham \nOur speaker will share their innovative initiative to ensure Digital Safeguarding partnership which is parent led and also working in partnership with the school.   \nSpeakers: Mikayla van den Berg\, Director of Boarding and Designated Safeguarding Lead \n\n14:45 – 15:00 Break  \n\n15:00 – 15:45 Balancing Privacy and Safety in AI and Facial Recognition Software in Safeguarding\n \nThe speaker will inform us about Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition software\,  helping us strengthen our understanding around balancing Privacy and Safety\, particularly for schools\, charities and organisations that work with children.  \nSpeaker: Professor Ugail\, Bradford University   \n\n15:45 – 16:00 Break  \n\n16:00 – 16:15 Safeguarding Neurodivergent Learners in a Digital World \nOur speaker will share findings from their qualitative research with children who are neurodivergent and young people with mental health challenges  \nSpeaker: Paula Bradbury\, Trust & Safety Principal SME & Criminologist\, Resolver \n\n16:15 Conference close \n\nSpeakers: \nDr Juncal Fernandez-Garayzabal\, PhD \nJuncal is Development & Program Manager at the Counter Extremism Project and a fellow at the European Foundation for South Asian Studies. A linguist by training\, her PhD examined parallels between human trafficking and extremist recruitment. She has led nine international rehabilitation and reintegration projects for individuals involved in extremism\, engaging directly with offenders and at-risk individuals worldwide. With experience across Latin America\, Africa\, and global institutions including Georgetown University and UNICEF\, she combines research and field practice to advance prevention\, deradicalization\, and peacebuilding efforts. Her work is widely published and frequently presented at multilateral forums. \n\nTom Hollyer\, Housemaster\, Uppingham School\n \nTom Hollyer is an experienced Housemaster\, Geography teacher\, and senior pastoral leader with a strong track record across leading UK boarding schools. Currently Housemaster of Fircroft at Uppingham School\, he oversees the pastoral and academic welfare of 56 boys aged 13–18 and contributes to whole-school wellbeing\, outreach\, and recruitment. A Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of Boarding\, Tom is also a qualified mindfulness teacher and Youth Mental Health First Aider. His career spans roles at Caldicott and RGS High Wycombe\, where he led boarding teams\, strengthened safeguarding practice\, and shaped thriving pastoral cultures. \n\nKarl Hopwood\, Independent E-Safety Consultant and SACPA Chair \nKarl Hopwood is an independent online safety expert and member of the UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS)\, where he sits on several working groups. He serves on the advisory board of the UK Safer Internet Centre and the Roblox Trust and Safety board\, and has advised TikTok on harmful challenges. Karl works closely with Internet Matters\, Ofcom\, and schools across Europe to promote digital literacy and safer online behaviours. A former headteacher\, he has consulted for INSAFE for 19 years\, coordinating helplines and awareness centres. He currently chairs Childnet International and SACPA\, and previously chaired the Marie Collins Foundation. \n  \n\nDr. Elizabeth Milovidov\, Founder\, Digital Parenting Coach.com \nDr. Elizabeth Milovidov is a lawyer\, law professor\, a leading expert in child online protection and the founder of DigitalParentingCoach.com.  She currently serves as the Global Head of Parental Advocacy at Roblox\, where she empowers families to navigate the digital world safely. \nShe is an Assistant Professor at the American Graduate School in Paris and holds trustee or advisory roles with the NSPCC\, Common Sense Media UK\, and the Children’s Media Foundation. Her expertise is frequently featured by France 24\, the BBC\, and the WSJ. Dr. Milovidov holds degrees from UCLA\, UC Davis\, and the European University. \n\nPaula Bradbury\, Trust & Safety Principal SME & Criminologist\, Resolver \nPaula Bradbury is a lecturer in Criminology and Policing Practice at the University of Middlesex.  She is also the Senior Researcher at the Centre for Abuse & Trauma Studies engaging in multiple research projects and bid writing opportunities\, the results have led to several successful grants awarded. She is a doctoral researcher studying for a PhD in Criminology\, exploring the appropriateness of policy and policing practice in response to adolescents sharing nudes. \n  \n\n \nProfessor Ugail\, Bradford University\n \nProfessor Hassan Ugail is Director of the Centre for Visual Computing and Intelligent Systems at the University of Bradford\, UK. He is a leading computer scientist specialising in visual computing and artificial intelligence. His research focuses on applying AI to real world challenges\, including digital health\, innovative engineering\, and sustainable societies. He is particularly known for work in human biometrics\, developing advanced AI methods for face recognition and analysis. This expertise contributed to identifying the Russian spies involved in the Salisbury Novichok poisoning case. In 2023\, he presented his work on AI driven face recognition at the 199th Royal Institution Christmas Lecture series. \n  \n\nArabella Northey\, Head of Partnerships and Communications\, Seqrd Technology \nFollowing eighteen years of dedicated experience in education across diverse school environments\, Arabella has cultivated a deep understanding of pedagogy and the evolving landscape of learning and the digital world. She has taught in both the state and private school sector. As a co-founder of The Fulham Boys School\, she developed a curriculum to equip and challenge boys of all abilities and foster a love of learning. Having completed her NPQH\, she worked with schools and senior leaders to embed thinking skills\, metacognition and self-regulation strategies within their curriculum. \nHer role as Head of Partnerships and Communications at Seqrd Technology has enabled her to combine her expertise in metacognition\, technology and safeguarding. This position has given her the opportunity to help schools and parents support their pupils to thrive online and navigate digital spaces safely. \n\n \nBharti Patel\, Human Rights Advocate and Former CEO ECPAT UK \nBharti Patel is an accomplished international advocate for children’s rights and social justice\, with over 20 years’ experience influencing policy\, practice\, and public discourse to protect children and marginalised communities. Her work spans child protection\, digital safeguarding\, anti-trafficking\, labour rights\, and social and economic justice in the UK and India. \nBharti has held senior leadership roles at organisations including ECPAT UK\, SVARAJ India\, and the Low Pay Unit\, campaigning for every child’s right to be free from exploitation and abuse—online and offline—as well as for access to food\, water\, livelihood security\, and decent work. She brings a deep understanding of how structural inequality\, poverty\, and policy failure intersect with digital environments\, heightening risks of child sexual exploitation and abuse. \nShe has a strong track record of influencing national and international law and policy\, grounded in evidence\, lived experience\, and frontline insight. Bharti served as an expert witness to the UK Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)\, contributing to recommendations to strengthen safeguarding systems and prevent child sexual exploitation\, including transnational and technology-facilitated abuse. \nShe is a sought-after speaker\, media commentator\, and safeguarding trainer for frontline practitioners\, NGOs\, and policymakers\, with a focus on digital risks and systemic prevention. She is a Trustee of the Right to Education Initiative. She divides her time between the UK and India. \n\nHoong Kwan\, CEO and CCO\, SEQRD \nHoong Kwan\, CEO and co-founder of SEQRD\, whose interest in digital safeguarding was piqued as he watched his sons and their interaction with technology. Hoong’s approach to digital safeguarding is shaped by more than 25 years’ experience as a strategist in telecoms\, IT and cybersecurity. He has led the company from concept to commercialisation as they launched their platform\, SchoolsMobile. In just 3 years from concept\, SchoolsMobile now protects thousands of children across schools in the UK. \n  \n\nMikayla van den Berg\, Director of Boarding and Designated Safeguarding Lead \nMikayla van den Berg is an experienced educational leader and Designated Safeguarding Lead with over 13 years’ experience across UK and international schools. She is a member of the Senior Management Team at Highfield and Brookham School\, with responsibility for whole-school safeguarding and boarding. Mikayla is a SACPA Safeguarding Awards 2025 finalist for Innovation\, recognised for developing a research-informed digital safeguarding programme rooted in education\, parental confidence\, and pupil voice. Her work focuses on online harms\, contextual safeguarding\, staff training\, and building effective partnerships between schools and families to support children’s wellbeing in an increasingly complex digital landscape.
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/digital-safeguarding-conference-3/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference,Online
ORGANIZER;CN="The Safeguarding and Child Protection Association":MAILTO:info@sacpa.org.uk
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SUMMARY:Safer organisations: Peer supervision - How might it work?
DESCRIPTION:Exploring cross-cultural approaches to reflective practice and professional growth \n🏷️ From £90\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up \n\nCourse outline: \nThis session led by Tanya Sharpe from Creative Counsellors offers a rich exploration of peer supervision. Creative Counsellors have 20\,000 members around the world. She will touch on why supervsion is an essential and sometimes overlooked element in organisations.  Supervision offers the opportunity to have a fresh perspective\, which can not only identify risks that may have been overlooked but also provide the psychological scaffolding and support that staff need when working in settings can be challenging. \nParticipants will gain practical insights into how collective reflection can strengthen wellbeing\, ethics\, and accountability across professional settings. \nLearning outcomes: \n\nGain fresh innovative supervision practices\nEnhance cultural understanding and reflective capacity when supporting diverse teams and communities\nTake away new tools and approaches to apply immediately within their own organisational or peer supervision settings\nJoin a global dialogue about how supervision can promote wellbeing\, ethics\, and cultural humility in practice.\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:  \nTanja Sharpe\, Creative Counsellors  \nTanja Sharpe is a UK-based psychotherapist\, clinical supervisor\, and founder of the Creative Counsellors Community CIC. She is passionate about supporting those who support others and specialises in helping professionals work creatively\, ethically\, and safely. With extensive experience in trauma-informed practice\, Tanja works as both a therapist\, coach and supervisor\, offering reflective spaces that nurture professional confidence and inspire insight. She is neurodivergent\, author of the “Creative Counselling” series as well as the “Therapeutic Doodling” series for young people. Through her supervision\, training\, and writing\, Tanja advocates for meaningful\, restorative supervision models that protect wellbeing and enhance practice – particularly within schools\, where emotional labour is high and reflective support is essential. Her work encourages organisations to move beyond compliance-led supervision toward creative\, connected\, and psychologically safe reflective cultures. www.creativecounsellors.org / www.tanjasharpe.com
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/peer-supervision-trusted-models-and-best-practice-2/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Online,Webinar
ORGANIZER;CN="The Safeguarding and Child Protection Association":MAILTO:info@sacpa.org.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260224T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260224T163000
DTSTAMP:20260205T160727Z
CREATED:20250723T145412Z
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SUMMARY:Safeguarding update for educational guardians (level 3 certificate)
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £235\n🎧 Level 3 certificate training for Educational Guardians\, DSLs\, DDSLs\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up \n\nCourse outline: \n\n\nThis one-day training course is tailored for Educational Guardians fulfilling the role of Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)\, but is also highly relevant for others responsible for safeguarding within their organisation. The programme is designed to build the knowledge\, skills\, and confidence required to meet safeguarding responsibilities with integrity and in line with statutory expectations. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nThe role of the Educational Guardian and DSL in safeguarding\nLegislative and statutory frameworks\nThresholds for child protection and key categories of abuse\nContemporary safeguarding concerns\nSafeguarding files and accurate record-keeping\nLearning from Serious Case Reviews\nParticipating in statutory and early help meetings\nProfessional conduct\, Position of Trust\, managing allegations and low-level concerns\nEscalation procedures and whistleblowing.\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nUnderstand legal and regulatory safeguarding requirements and partners\nUnderstand current safeguarding risks and issues\nBe able to respond appropriately to concerns\, including navigating referral pathways and working with external agencies\nUnderstand and apply thresholds for child protection and early help.\n\n\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\nSpeaker: \n \nDale Wilkins\, Executive Director\, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance \nDale joined the BSA in 2017 to lead safeguarding\, inspection\, and compliance across the UK\, building on his experience as a course tutor since 1998. He works closely with ISI\, Ofsted\, and DfE\, and oversees the Group’s work in Scotland and Wales. A trainer and consultant for BSA and SACPA\, Dale is Vice Chair of SAFCAB. Previously\, he was a boarding practitioner for 31 years\, including Housemaster and Deputy Head at Old Swinford Hospital. He also trains for the Methodist Church\, is a trustee of the National Youth String Orchestra\, chairs a performing arts charity\, and volunteers in sport and Scouting. \n\nDr Mariya Ali\, Director\, SACPA \nMariya 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.
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/safeguarding-update-for-educational-guardians-level-3-certificate/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom) – This event will NOT be recorded\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Certificate,Online
ORGANIZER;CN="The Safeguarding and Child Protection Association":MAILTO:info@sacpa.org.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260227T091500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260227T101500
DTSTAMP:20260222T165833Z
CREATED:20250723T151040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260222T165833Z
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SUMMARY:Safeguarding Practice Forum - Supervision as a Safeguarding Safeguard: From Compliance to Culture
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ FOC for SACPA Members\, Non-Members £20\n🎧 Safeguarding Leads\, DSLs / DDSLs\, Social Work Managers\, Charity and Faith Sector Leaders\, Education and Residential Settings and Trustees and Governors\n📍 Online\n🎥 Join live \n\nCourse outline: \n\nThe SACPA Safeguarding Practice Forums are free networking sessions available exclusively to SACPA members. Aligned with SACPA’s mission to support safeguarding professionals\, these monthly forums create a dedicated space for sharing knowledge\, insights\, and mutual encouragement. \nEach session brings together safeguarding leads\, practitioners\, senior leaders\, trustees\, and governors to engage in meaningful discussion around a focused safeguarding theme. These virtual gatherings offer a valuable opportunity to stay connected\, informed\, and inspired within a supportive professional community. \nParticipation is open to SACPA members who have registered and received confirmation through our online booking system. If you are not already a SACPA member and want to benefit from networking with other safeguarding leads\, did you know that professional membership pays for itself in as little as two out of the ten scheduled safeguarding practice forum sessions per year? You may want to browse our membership page.   \nWhy Supervision Matters in Safeguarding. \nEffective safeguarding does not happen through policy alone\, it happens through reflective\, accountable and emotionally intelligent supervision. This practice forum explores supervision as a protective mechanism in its own right\, strengthening decision-making\, professional curiosity\, safer culture and organisational resilience. \nThe findings of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) emphasised that safeguarding failures were rarely due to policy gaps alone but were rooted in weak organisational culture and insufficient leadership oversight\, highlighting that effective\, reflective supervision is a critical leadership mechanism to ensure accountability\, professional challenge and a culture where safeguarding concerns are surfaced rather than silenced. \nAims of the forum \n\nTo explore supervision as a core safeguarding control\, not an administrative task\nTo examine how poor or absent supervision contributes to safeguarding failures\nTo strengthen understanding of reflective\, restorative and accountable supervision models\nTo connect supervision to safer organisational culture\n\nLearning Outcomes \nBy the end of the session\, participants will be able to: \n\nArticulate why supervision is central to safeguarding effectiveness\nIdentify red flags in supervisory systems\nApply reflective questioning to complex safeguarding cases\nUnderstand how supervision mitigates risk\, drift and professional isolation\n\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker: \nBethany Newman\, Founder\, Safeguarding Supervision \nBethany Newman is an experienced safeguarding professional and Founder of Safeguarding Supervision. An NSPCC Qualified Supervisor\, she combines academic excellence with extensive frontline experience. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Bristol\, a PGCE from Cambridge University\, and a Masters in Education\, with research focusing on physical restraint and affluent neglect. Bethany is also a certified Senior Mental Health Lead. A former Deputy Head and Designated Safeguarding Lead\, she delivers trauma-informed training that supports safeguarding professionals to lead with clarity and compassion. \n\nDr Mariya Ali\, Director\, SACPA \nMariya 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.
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/safeguarding-practice-forum/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom) – This event will NOT be recorded\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Forum,Online
ORGANIZER;CN="The Safeguarding and Child Protection Association":MAILTO:info@sacpa.org.uk
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