SACPA – Safeguarding Cultures Conference

• Date: June 20, 2024 
• Time: 09:30 – 16:15
• Cost: SACPA Member Rate: £215, SACPA Additional Full Member Fee: £110, Non-member Rate: £490*
• Audience: Safeguarding leaders, service leads, head teachers, HR professionals, bursars, safeguarding governors / trustees and chairs of trustees and governors
• Platform: Zoom (online) – conference

Course outline:

This conference brings together expert speakers with specialist knowledge in developing and maintaining protective safeguarding cultures that are courageous in their ethos, aims and ways of working.

It aims to inform and support colleagues helping them to analyse and identify the elements needed, identify best practice examples and sources of support in this critical and overarching area of safeguarding work.

Sacpa will facilitate questions directly from members to our experts throughout the day and encourage delegates to come prepared with questions for our panels.

Training topics will include:

• Maintaining strong safeguarding cultures in an evolving landscape
• Responding to Harmful Sexual Behaviour and Sextortion
• Setting and maintaining staff and volunteer behavioural expectations
• Messages from the LADO caseload
• Supporting reporters and survivors under pressure
• The role of immersive learning in preparation for serious incidents

Learning outcomes:

• Increased appreciation of complexity and the ever-evolving world of safeguarding and maintenance of protective organisations
• Feel updated on the possible impacts of harmful sexual behaviour and sextortion
• Consider how behavioural expectations may be maintained and internalised by all and the consequences of effective and ineffective management of concerns
• Increased confidence and competence in supporting reporters under pressure and survivors of harm and consider systems in place in your organisation to care
• Appreciate the value of immersive learning environments in preparing for serious incident management

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Programme:

09:30 – 10:15

Maintaining strong safeguarding cultures in an evolving landscape
In this session our speaker examines the scope of the evolving safeguarding landscape and its impact on safer organisations practice.
Delegates will be updated on the evolving scope of safeguarding practice and consider how this informs their safer organisations practice.

• Chair: TBC
• Speaker: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group and Director, SACPA

10:15 – 10:30

Break

10:30- 11:15

Responding to Harmful Sexual Behaviour and Sextortion
In this session our speaker discusses the prevention, management and response to harmful sexual behaviour and sextortion.  What are the safer organisations lessons from case work and how should organisations respond and inform their safer organisations practice.
Delegates will consider how the management of harmful sexual behaviour, the use of technology and the management of sextortion cases interface with staff behaviour and safer organisations practice.

• Chair: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group and Director, SACPA
• Speaker: Philip Baines, Independent Safeguarding Advisor

11:15 – 11:30

Break

11:30 – 12:30

Setting and maintaining staff and volunteer behavioural expectations
In this session out panel present their challenges and solutions for setting expectations of staff behaviour.  What has worked well, and what has been more challenging.  How has the analysis of low-level concerns contributed to the ongoing development of the staff code of conduct and broader safer working cultures.
Delegates will learn from best practice and case challenges and be able to put in place more robust systems to continually develop safer working practices.

• Chair: TBC
• Speakers: Alice Vicary-Stott, Director of Safeguarding, Eaton College

12:30 – 13:15

Lunch

13:15 – 14:00

Messages from the LADO caseload
In this session our speaker brings us up to date discusses the trends of low-level concerns consultations, and nature of allegations in recent LADO caseloads.
Delegates will be updated with the latest trends on allegations and low-level concerns and consider how best to plan their organisational responses to themes emerging nationally.

• Chair: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group and Director, SACPA
• Speaker: Steve Hall, Head of Quality Assurance, Independent Safeguarding Service

14:00 – 14:15

Break

14:15 – 15:15

Supporting reporters and survivors under pressure
In this session, out panel of speakers discuss key ethical questions about supporting reporters under pressure and the challenges of supporting and signposting survivors of harm.  Delegates may consider what systems they have in place to support and what further could be developed.
Delegates will have an opportunity to plan for mandatory reporting and respond to possible ethical dilemmas in this area of safer organisations practice.

• Chair: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group and Director, SACPA
• Speaker: Colin Perkins, Safeguarding Adviser for the Diocese of Chichester
  • Dale Wilkins, Senior Director, BSA Group

15:15 – 15:30

Break

15:30 – 16:15

The role of immersive learning in preparing for serious incidents
In this session our speaker describes how immersive learning suites positively impact preparation for managing a serious safeguarding incident.  What is the evidence behind this approach, and how can it be applied to the management of a serious safeguarding incident, including those involving positions of trust.
Delegates will improve their appreciation of immersive learning methodology and how this supports preparing for serious safeguarding incident management.

• Chair: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group and Director, SACPA
• Speaker: TBC

Speakers:

Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group and Director, SACPA

Claire 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.

Philip Baines, Independent Safeguarding Advisor

Philip was a Detective having spent 30 years in the police. The last 14 years of his police service was in the Child Abuse Investigation Unit (CAIU). He is also qualified as the following:

• Family Liaison Officer (FLO)
• Disaster Victim Identification Officer (DVI)
• Significant Witness interviewer (Sig Wit)
• Enhanced Cognitive Witness Interviewer
• Domestic Abuse Officer
• PIP Level 2 investigator
• Achieving Best Evidence (ABE- VRI vulnerable and intimidated witness interviewer)
• Specialist Child Abuse Investigative Development Programme (SCAIDP)
• Joint Investigator – Section 47 Children Act ‘89

Philip was also seconded to the Training Department for 2 years, where he received qualifications in training and delivered all these subjects, including Harmful Sexual Behaviours (HSB).

Philip is a qualified AIM3 Assessor of children displaying HSB.

Philip also quality assured the Home Office Harmful Sexual Behaviours Support Service (HSBSS) where he oversaw and triaged all the requests for support and advised personally on all the complex cases.

Philip supports survivors and families who have been victim of all types of abuse, including technology assisted child sexual abuse (TACSA) through his work as a consultant for the Marie Collins Foundation.

Alice Vicary-Stott, Director of Safeguarding, Eaton College

Alice takes specific responsibility for all safeguarding and child protection matters in school.
She exercises her responsibilities in conjunction with 6 Deputy DSL’s, who are currently the Lower Master, the Deputy Head (Pastoral), the Director of Boarding, the Director of Welfare, the Deputy Director of Music and the Safeguarding Co-ordinator.
Alice has a degree in Social Work, and has worked in Children’s Social Care throughout her career in a variety of social care departments. Before joining Eton, Alice was a Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) for Kingston, Richmond, Windsor and Maidenhead. In this role she was in charge of child protection services working closely with both maintained and independent schools, police, other statutory agencies, health, charities, voluntary, independent and private sector organisations. At this time, Alice was also chair of the National LADO Network.

Colin Perkins, Safeguarding Adviser for the Diocese of Chichester

Colin Perkins is the Safeguarding Adviser for the Diocese of Chichester, which is the Church of England in Sussex. He has managed the Church’s response to some of the largest criminal investigations in UK history into non-recent child sexual abuse in religious settings. He gave extensive evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), with his team’s work being referred to as ‘best practice’, with particular reference to partnership working with statutory agencies and responding to survivors of abuse during criminal investigations. Prior to his work in the Church of England, Colin worked in Probation with high-risk sexual and violent offenders, and gang members. Colin has a Post-Graduate Certificate in Forensic Behavioural Psychology, and a Masters Degree in Advanced Child Protection.

Dale Wilkins, Senior Director, BSA Group

Dale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme, including both day seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter and has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members. He also liaises with ISI, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit, which he first produced in 2002, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding.

For 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board.

Steve Hall, Head of Quality Assurance, Independent Safeguarding Service

Steve 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.

He is an experienced LADO and is the elected Chair of the National LADO Network. 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.