Harmful behaviour risk assessments

🏷️ £175 – 350
🎧 Safeguarding leads, pastoral leads, senior leaders
📍 Online

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.

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This event will be held jointly with:

Speakers:

David Walker, Director, Executive Director, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB

David is the BSA Director 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 is an internationally recognised safeguarding and child protection expert with over 20 years’ multidisciplinary experience. She has held senior advisory, academic, legal, and leadership roles, including serving as Maldives Minister of Gender, Family, and Human Rights, leading reforms in child protection law and policy. Internationally, she has advised UNICEF, UNDP, and ECPAT on child sexual abuse, exploitation, and protection systems. Holding qualifications in law and child psychology, she has published widely on child rights, online safety, and trauma-informed practice. Mariya’s strategic vision, policy expertise, and frontline insight equip her to bring both global perspective and local understanding to SACPA’s mission.