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SUMMARY:Safeguarding in Online Contexts
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧All practitioners and leaders with a safeguarding responsibility\, pastoral support\, preventative education providers\, online safety leads\, volunteers who come into contact with children.\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up \n\nCourse outline: \nDiscover the essential online contexts across key safeguarding topics. Explore what to watch for\, how to respond\, and strategies to minimise harm while empowering children and young people in the digital world. \nUnable to attend? Access the webinar recording post-event. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nUnderstanding online contexts in safeguarding\nMental health considerations in digital environments\nStaff conduct and digital responsibilities\nChild advocacy\, rights\, and the digital landscape\nIdentification\, response\, and recovery strategies.\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nDeepened understanding of online contexts in safeguarding\nEnhanced confidence in supporting mental health online\nInsight into digital conduct’s impact on organisational safety and child welfare\nStrategies to balance online safety with child advocacy and rights\nProficiency in identification\, response\, and recovery practices.\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/safeguarding-in-online-contexts-5/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom) – This webinar will be recorded\, 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:20270310T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270310T103000
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SUMMARY:SACPA- Safeguarding and Mental Health Risk Assessment
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 Mental health leads\, counsellors\, CBT practitioners\, Safeguarding Leads\, Deputy Safeguarding Leads\, Health workers\, chaplaincy staff\, Governors\, trustees\, Senior Leaders\n📍 Online \nCourse outline: \nMental health continues to be a top safeguarding concern for practitioners\, children\, young people and their families alike.  This webinar aims to look at key areas of managing mental health in house with a particular focus on mental health risk assessment and review.  \nTraining topics will include: \n\nCurrent challenges in managing mental health \nWhen does mental health become a safeguarding issue \nMental health risk assessment \nThresholds for mental health support and access to specialist services \nWhen to escalate or conduct an incident review. \n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nEnsure they are up to date with the latest challenges in managing mental health \nFeel more confident about when mental health becomes a safeguarding issue \nIncrease knowledge and understanding of conducting a mental health risk assessment \nIdentify when escalation and incident review should take place. \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: \nPhill Beisty \nPhill is a child psychotherapist in private practise as well as being a magistrate sitting in the child and family court with previous experience of being a safeguarding lead for a corporate mental health company\, currently working in a range of settings. \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. 
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/sacpa-safeguarding-and-mental-health-risk-assessment/
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:20270412T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270412T110000
DTSTAMP:20260813T085233Z
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SUMMARY:Online Addictions: The influence of social media and online personalities.
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 This webinar is for children and adult safeguarding practitioners and leads in all organisations and sectors.\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up \n\nCourse outline: \nSocial media\, online gaming and digital content are increasingly embedded in young people’s everyday lives. While these platforms can offer connection\, entertainment and opportunities for learning\, they can also encourage compulsive behaviours and expose young people to potentially harmful influences. \nThis webinar will explore online addictions and the techniques used by platforms\, influencers and content creators to capture and retain attention. It will consider how online personalities can shape young people’s attitudes\, choices and behaviours\, as well as the signs that healthy online engagement may be becoming problematic. Delegates will gain practical strategies to support young people in developing safer\, healthier and more balanced digital habits. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nUnderstanding online addiction and problematic digital behaviours\nHow social media platforms and online games are designed to encourage continued engagement\nThe influence of content creators\, streamers and online personalities\nParasocial relationships and why young people may place trust in people they follow online\nThe impact of algorithms\, targeted content and online trends\nRecognising signs that online use may be affecting wellbeing\, relationships\, sleep or education\nPractical approaches to early intervention\, support and healthier digital boundaries\nWhen concerns may require escalation or specialist support.\n\nLearning outcomes \nDelegates will: \n\nDevelop a clearer understanding of online addiction and problematic digital use\nRecognise how platforms and online personalities can influence young people’s behaviour and decision-making\nIdentify early warning signs that a young person’s online activity may be becoming harmful\nFeel more confident discussing online habits with young people in an open and non-judgemental way\nGain practical strategies to promote digital resilience\, critical thinking and healthier online engagement\nUnderstand when and how to respond to safeguarding or wellbeing concerns.\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: Patrick Foster\, Director | GAM-Ed \nPatrick Foster is a former professional cricketer\, insurance broker and schoolteacher whose life was shattered by a pathological gambling addiction that brought him to the verge of taking his own life in March 2018. \nUsing his experience\, he works with schools\, companies and individuals\, young and old\, raising awareness of the dangers of gambling and associated risk-taking behaviours. By sharing his own story\, he hopes to help others identify if they\, or someone around them\, are experiencing addiction or mental health problems and inspire them to reach out for help. \nPatrick is an ambassador for the Mintridge Foundation\, a registered charity dedicated to enhancing life skills in young people through sport\, building resilience and confidence through sport\, and creating awareness of the importance of mental and physical wellbeing. \nHe is the author of bestselling book Might Bite: The Secret Life of a Gambling Addict\, his brutally honest account of over a decade of pathological gambling addiction to recovery and beyond.
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/gaming-and-exposure-to-radicalisation-and-grooming-4/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom) – This webinar will be recorded\, 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:20270420T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270420T110000
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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:20270429T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270429T140000
DTSTAMP:20260810T152141Z
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UID:17869-1809003600-1809007200@www.sacpa.org.uk
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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