Sacpa training: Ensuring best practice in safeguarding interventions

• Date: June 24, 2022
• Time: 11:00 – 13:00
• Cost: Sacpa Member fee – £100, non-member -£200
• Audience: All practitioners working with children, young people or vulnerable individuals, DSL/DSO, DDSL, Safeguarding Manager/Lead.
• Platform: Zoom (online)

In safeguarding and child protection, the provision of specific help or support to address a concern is commonly referred to as an intervention. Early intervention, or early help, is frequently referred to when a family or child needs support and is the recommended action rather than waiting for a situation to escalate. Timely support can be increasingly preventative and protective.

Successful intervention needs careful monitoring and reporting and should be undertaken with the understanding that the intervention is temporary. There needs to be a recognised point where the intervention has been a success or a failure, and another process undertaken. Depending on the type of intervention put in place, there also needs to be a clear understanding of the professional boundaries for all involved, especially in the cases where an individual child/young person is being given support.

This training session will use case studies to demonstrate to delegates the recommended process of implementing, managing, reporting and closing interventions and support to promote the best outcomes for the person/people receiving the help, those delivering it, and all other parties within the setting.

Training topics will include:

• Assessment of the safeguarding need and implementation of strategies
• Managing, reporting and decision making
• Exit strategies
• Exploring professional boundaries.

Learning outcomes:

• Understanding safeguarding interventions and how these can vary
• Increased understanding of the need to monitor and report interventions/help
• Recommended methodology for implementing and withdrawing interventions.

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Dale Wilkins, Director of Safeguarding, Professional Development and Accreditation, Sacpa and BSA Group

Dale is a child protection specialist, with over 30 years’ experience working in the education sector. He is currently the Director of Safeguarding, Professional Development and Accreditation for Sacpa and the BSA Group, is accredited by the NSPCC, having completed their ‘Training for trainers in child protection’ and his work includes liaising with government bodies on behalf of the sector as well as delivering child protection CPD to schools. Dale has also been a multi-agency safeguarding trainer for Dudley Safeguarding Children Board.

Claire Dan, Head of Safeguarding, Sacpa and BSA Group

Claire is Head of Safeguarding for the Sacpa and BSA Group, leading 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. Since 2006, Claire has been involved with Luton Safeguarding Children Board as a lead multi-agency safeguarding trainer, developing and delivering single and multi-agency safeguarding training, pieces of bespoke consultancy work, and providing a range of safeguarding consultancy on a freelance basis.