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:

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: TBC

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: TBC

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: TBC

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