Harmful behaviour risk assessments
🏷️ From £175
🎧 Safeguarding leads, pastoral leads, senior leaders
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Course outline:
Risk assessment is no longer limited to trips and events – settings are now expected to take a proactive, risk-based approach in many other areas.
This webinar explores how to assess and respond to harmful behaviours – both at an individual and whole-setting level. Using current guidance, including Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) and Ofsted’s review of sexual abuse in schools, we’ll examine best practices in identifying risks, planning interventions, and creating safer environments.
Training topics will include:
- Identifying harmful behaviours, including harmful sexual behaviour
- Understanding diversity, vulnerability, and disproportionality
- Effective assessment, safety planning, and intervention strategies
- Whole-setting risk assessments and risk mitigation.
Learning outcomes:
- Recognise and respond to harmful behaviours using current evidence and guidance
- Conduct proportionate risk assessments for individuals and settings
- Understand why some children are more vulnerable to harm or harmful behaviour
- Apply practical strategies to reduce risk and strengthen safeguarding culture.
Speakers:
David Walker, Executive Director, Boarding & Education and Director, BSA/TIOB
David is the Executive Director, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB and joined the BSA group in August 2023. He has over 20 years’ experience in boarding schools and has worked in a range of schools in the UK and Africa, alongside being a prep school governor and a trustee of a MAT. Before taking up his post at the BSA, David was Deputy Head Pastoral at a large co-ed independent school in the South-East.
Dr Mariya Ali, Director, SACPA
Mariya 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.
This event will be held jointly with:
