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SUMMARY:Managing the Single Central Register (SCR) in boarding schools
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 All who have responsibility and oversight responsibility of safer recruitment and regulatory compliance including safeguarding professionals and leaders\, trustees\, board members and governors\, bursars and HR professionals.\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \nCourse outline: \nIs your Single Central Register compliant? \nSchools and colleges must keep a Single Central Record in line with statutory guidance and associated legislation. However\, inaccuracies and missing data in the single central register remains a key area of compliance concern resulting in poor regulatory inspection outcomes which are reflected in judgements on safeguarding leadership. \nThis webinar is developed to support colleagues who have operational and oversight responsibility for the Single Central Record. It covers; \n\nSupporting guidance\nInformation required for SCR\nRetention of evidence\nProcedure for maintaining and checking the SCR\nWhat happens on the SCR if staff or volunteers are found to be unsuitable..\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nReview of underpinning legislation and guidance\nHow to develop a checklist of SCR requirements for compliance audit\nHow to implement recommended procedures for maintaining and checking the SCR\nWhat to consider in reviewing the SCR if there is a change in suitability.\n\nBOOK NOW \nThis is being held jointly with:
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/managing-the-single-central-register-scr-in-boarding-schools-3/
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:20270423T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270423T153000
DTSTAMP:20260814T114502Z
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SUMMARY:Safer Recruitment Consortium Accredited Safer Recruitment Certificate
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £235\n🎧 HR Teams\, Senior Leadership\, Governors and Trustees\n📍 Online\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse outline: \n\nThis accredited training course is the widely accepted UK standard for safer recruitment recognised by the government. In line with statutory guidance\, every recruitment panel involved in appointing individuals to work with children must include at least one member who has completed appropriate safer recruitment training.\n\nDelivered by an approved Safer Recruitment Consortium trainer\, this course reflects current legislation and best practice\, drawing on updates to the national Guidance for Safer Working Practice to address evolving expectations around professional conduct.\n\nDeveloped for the education sector by the Safer Recruitment Consortium\, the programme has been expanded to cover all settings involving working with children.\n\nTraining topics will include: \n\nSafer recruitment and the wider context of safeguarding\nPrevalence of abuse and profile of abusers\nHow abusers operate within organisations\nFeatures of a safer recruitment process\nPlanning a safer recruitment process\nMaking the right decisions: interview and selection\nSetting acceptable standards of behaviour\nMaintaining an ongoing culture of vigilance.\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nCPD/Certification: All participants will receive an accredited SRC course completion certificate alongside participant guidance handbooks. \n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker: \nSpeaker: Steve Hall\, Chair of the National LADO Network \nSteve brings over 40 years of experience as a qualified social worker and Service Manager in Social Care for various Local Authorities with a background of Front door services\, assessment\, Child Protection\, care experienced children\, Children with Disabilities\, and Quality Assurance. \nHe is an experienced LADO and held the elected role of Chair of the National LADO Network for over 6 years\, stepping down recently in order to focus on training commitments. Steve is an experienced trainer\, providing tailored safeguarding training to a variety of settings. He also provides consultancy\, including investigations\, safeguarding audits\, for a wide range of sectors\, including the police\, Faith\, Sports\, Fostering\, Education\, Early Years and Youth Services. \n\nThis event is held in collaboration with:
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/safer-recruitment-consortium-accredited-safer-recruitment-certificate-4/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="The Safeguarding and Child Protection Association":MAILTO:info@sacpa.org.uk
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DTSTAMP:20260810T152141Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond Online Safety: Social Media\, Smartphones and Safeguarding Young People
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 \n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up \nCourse outline: \nOnline safety is an ever-evolving area of safeguarding\, with social media and smartphone use playing an increasingly significant role in young people’s lives\, relationships\, wellbeing and development. \nThis webinar will explore current online safety concerns alongside the wider impact of social media and smartphone use on young people’s development\, identity and sense of self. It will consider how patterns of phone and social media use can become habitual or addictive\, and how online spaces may be used as an avoidance or coping mechanism when young people are experiencing difficult emotions or situations. \nThe session will support safeguarding practitioners and those working with young people to look beyond individual online incidents and consider the underlying behaviours\, needs and vulnerabilities that may be influencing a young person’s online activity. \nTraining topics: \n\n\nThe current online safety landscape — headline concerns only\nUnderstand how social media can influence young people’s identity\, development\, relationships and emotional wellbeing\nSmartphone and social media use as an avoidance or coping mechanism\nRecognising when phone/social media patterns signal a wider wellbeing or safeguarding concern\nThe impact of social media on young people’s development and sense of self\nBalancing protection with children’s voice and rights in how we respond\n\n\nLearning outcomes: \nDelegates will: \n\nUnderstand the research on young people in a digital age\nRecognise signs that online behaviour may reflect wider wellbeing or safeguarding needs\nConsider how to balance protective action with respecting a young person’s voice and autonomy\nIdentify one or two practical ways to open conversations about tech use without shutting the young person down\n\n\nBOOK NOW\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: \nMichelle Smorfitt\, Resilience researcher\, Workplace wellbeing consultant\, and Coach \n \nMichelle Smorfitt is a resilience researcher\, workplace wellbeing consultant\, and coach. She holds an MSc in Integrative Health and Wellbeing (Distinction) from the University of Westminster and is due to complete her PhD on student resilience. Michelle is the Resilience Lead at Persyou\, where she develops innovative approaches to measuring and building resilience in education. Her work focuses on helping young people adapt to change\, manage pressure\, and thrive in an increasingly complex and digital world. \n 
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/beyond-online-safety-social-media-smartphones-and-safeguarding-young-people/
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:20270608T100000
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DTSTAMP:20260904T091132Z
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SUMMARY:Applying the new Information Sharing Guidance
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £135\n🎧 DSL\, DDSL\, Senior leaders\, pastoral support\, behaviour leads\, early help workers\, support workers\, family workers\, safeguarding leads\n📍 Online \n\nCourse outline: \nThe new government advice for safeguarding practitioners on information sharing reframes the 7 golden rules and shifts the focus of information sharing from consent to legal basis. \nThis seminar uses case study examples and group work discussion to provide safe space practice in identifying the appropriate legal basis\, applying the legal basis and recording the legal basis for information sharing. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nWhat does the new government advice say\nThe reframing of the 7 golden rules\nWhat is legal basis vs. consent and why the change\nThe interface with health information sharing guidance\nThe importance of recording information sharing decisions\nPractical group-work application on case study examples\nDifficult conversations: explaining the rationale for information sharing decisions.\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nIncrease knowledge and understanding of changes in recent safeguarding information sharing advice\nBe confident about applying and recording the legal basis for information sharing\nIncrease appreciation of the interface between advice and guidance on safeguarding and health information sharing\nConsider how to frame difficult conversations about information sharing decisions and actions.\n\nBOOK NOW \n*If you would like to become a member and access discounted rates for Sacpa CPD and events\, please click here.
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/applying-the-new-information-sharing-guidance-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom) – This event will NOT be recorded\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="The Safeguarding and Child Protection Association":MAILTO:info@sacpa.org.uk
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