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SUMMARY:Safeguarding Children with additional needs: the legalities of reasonable adjustment
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 Suitable for safeguarding\, behaviour\, pastoral support and SEND professionals\, leaders\, trustees\, governors and board members with oversight of safeguarding\, SEND and inclusion.\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up \n\nCourse outline: \nDoes your organisation understand the legalities of making reasonable adjustment when safeguarding children and young people? \nThe emphasis on the need for awareness of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in safeguarding guidance continues to grow. It is critical to avoid unlawful discrimination and to discharge the duty to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 as well as understand evolving Government guidance on best practice in supporting children with SEND.\nThis webinar highlights the legal landscape relating to disability discrimination and in particular your duty to make reasonable adjustments in safeguarding. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nReview key equality legislation and safeguarding guidance\nWhat is disability?\nCase study application of adjustments in safeguarding: are they reasonable?\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nIncrease knowledge and awareness of key equality duties in safeguarding\nReview key legislation and guidance for SEND\nConsider the application of `reasonable adjustment’ decisions using case study scenarios and what it means for their practice and decision-making.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeakers: \nLily Bohling\, Solicitor\, Moore Barlow \nLily is a Solicitor in Moore Barlow’s Schools team\, specialising in employment and education law.\nLily advises on a range of education law aspects\, as well as both contentious and non-contentious employment law matters.  In particular\, Lily has recently advised schools on grievance and disciplinary processes\, dismissal strategy\, safeguarding matters\, employment contracts and subject access requests.Outside of work\, she is the Secretary of her local Junior Lawyers Division and a member of the Association of Women Solicitors.\nIn her free time\, she enjoys exploring new places\, keeping fit and singing. \n\nCerys Cousins\, Moore Barlow \nI advise independent schools and charities on a wide range of employment and education law matters. I am working towards specialising in matters including reputation management\, pastoral and safeguarding issues\, SEND\, exclusions\, parent and pupil complaints\, data protection\, parent contracts\, admissions and staff matters. With two years’ experience working in this sector\, I provide practical\, timely and sensitive support to schools on both day‑to‑day and strategic challenges\, helping them navigate complex issues with confidence. \n  \n\n \nBen Collingwood \nI specialise in advising independent schools and other charities on wide ranging areas of education law\, with particular focus on reputation issues\, pastoral\, safeguarding\, historic abuse allegations\, SEN\, exclusions\, parent/pupil complaints\, data protection\, parent contracts\, admissions and staff matters of all types.\nI have written and spoken widely on issues facing the independent schools sector\, providing comment in The Times\, The Guardian\, The Lawyer and Law Society’s Gazette and at the national conferences and training programmes for the various associations that support independent schools including BSA\, ISBA\, HMC\, IAPS and AGBIS.\nI live with my wife and three children in West Sussex. I have been a devoted surfer since my childhood and I love to spend as much of my free time as possible in the sea and walking our pointers with my family.
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/safeguarding-children-with-additional-needs-the-legalities-of-reasonable-adjustment-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:20270302T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270302T110000
DTSTAMP:20260802T200432Z
CREATED:20260802T200432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260802T200432Z
UID:17219-1803981600-1803985200@www.sacpa.org.uk
SUMMARY:Managing Allegations and Low-level Concerns
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs)\, Deputy DSLs\, Senior Leaders\, Trustees\, Governors\, Values Guardians\, Nominated Persons for low-level concern management\, and professionals involved in safer recruitment and HR across all sectors\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up \n\nCourse outline: \nEffectively managing allegations and low-level concerns is critical to fostering a safer organisational culture and fulfilling legal and compliance responsibilities. This webinar offers a clear and practical guide for safeguarding leaders on how to respond with transparency\, consistency\, and professionalism. \nTraining topics: \n\nIdentifying and managing allegations and low-level concerns\nEmbedding safer working cultures through robust policies and procedures\nBehavioural expectations and their role in safer recruitment\nUnderstanding referral processes: when\, how\, and to whom\nPromoting whole-organisation awareness through training and signposting\nApproaching difficult conversations with clarity and confidence\nEnsuring transparency\, accountability\, and consistency in safeguarding responses.\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nRecognise the role of clear safeguarding policies in managing concerns\nStrengthen organisational culture to prioritise safety and accountability\nImplement effective training and signposting strategies across teams\nApply best-practice approaches to managing low-level concerns and allegations\nNavigate sensitive conversations with confidence and professionalism.\n\nBOOK NOW \n*If you would like to become a member and access discounted rates for Sacpa CPD and events\, please click here. \nSpeaker:
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/managing-allegations-and-low-level-concerns-8/
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:20270303T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270303T140000
DTSTAMP:20260819T095509Z
CREATED:20260802T200549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260819T095509Z
UID:17221-1804078800-1804082400@www.sacpa.org.uk
SUMMARY:Domestic and International Trafficking
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 This webinar is for all safeguarding leads and practitioners with an interest in international safeguarding contexts.\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up \n\nCourse outline  \nIn this webinar our speaker describes the work of the border force and their practice experiences of safeguarding children and vulnerable persons who are at risk of\, or have been trafficked for the purpose of exploitation. \nTraining Topics will include:  \n\nThe work of the border force in safeguarding\nHow this links with the multi-agency safeguarding system\nKey tends that safeguarding leads should be aware of\nCase examples to inform your practice\nAgencies that can support.\n\nLearning outcomes: \nDelegates will: \n\nhave the opportunity to enhance their knowledge and awareness of domestic and International trafficking relevant to their safeguarding role\nhave enhanced understanding of key trends and what to look out for.\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: \nLouise Daynes\, Border Force Higher Officer and Lead Trainer\, National Safeguarding and Modern Slavery Team\, Border Force \nWith over 20 years’ experience as a Safeguarding Higher Officer at Gatwick Airport\, Louise has extensive frontline expertise in handling safeguarding cases involving both adults and children at immigration control. They have played key roles in major safeguarding operations in the UK and France\, including Operation Limelight\, Karetu\, and Aident. Now part of the National Safeguarding and Modern Slavery Team\, Louise is the training lead\, delivering safeguarding programmes to Border Force colleagues of all grades nationwide. They also provide training to key stakeholders across the UK and Europe\, sharing specialist knowledge on safeguarding and modern slavery issues.
URL:https://www.sacpa.org.uk/event/domestic-and-international-trafficking-2/
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:20270304T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270304T103000
DTSTAMP:20260805T104756Z
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UID:17223-1804152600-1804156200@www.sacpa.org.uk
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
DTSTAMP:20260805T141216Z
CREATED:20260805T105655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260805T141216Z
UID:17227-1804671000-1804674600@www.sacpa.org.uk
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
CREATED:20260805T143928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260813T085233Z
UID:17244-1807524000-1807527600@www.sacpa.org.uk
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
DTSTAMP:20260805T094903Z
CREATED:20260805T094903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260805T094903Z
UID:17820-1808215200-1808218800@www.sacpa.org.uk
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
CREATED:20260810T130314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260810T152141Z
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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