SACPA – KCSIE & Working Together Updates for 2024

• Date: August 29, 2024 
• Time: 09:00 – 10:00
• Cost: SACPA Member Rate: £65, SACPA Additional Full Member Fee: £30, Non-member Rate: £130*
• Audience: All practitioners working with children and young people, DSL, DDSL in education settings in England
• Platform: Zoom (online) – webinar

Course outline:

This webinar will look at the changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education for 2024 and will highlight the management and compliance implications and include any relevant changes to Working Together 2023.

KCSIE is for all practitioners in schools as well as governing bodies, proprietors, and management committees.

Unable to attend? A post webinar recording will be available for purchase.

Training topics will include:

• Changes to KCSIE
• Impact on policies and procedures
• Impact on professional practice.

Learning outcomes:

• Awareness of changes to the guidance
• How to update school policies and procedures to reflect the new guidance
• Understanding issues relating to implementation and dissemination to school staff.

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Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding 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.

Dale Wilkins, Senior Director, BSA and 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.