Sacpa webinar – Staff behaviour policy or code of conduct: the benefits of co-production and the risks of not

• Date: September 20, 2022
• Time: 11:00 – 12:00
• Cost: Sacpa Member – £60, Additional Sacpa Member – £20, Non-member – £120
• Audience: Trustees, Governors, and Leaders responsible for ensuring safer working cultures, HR professionals with responsibility for safer recruitment, adequate induction, and ongoing HR processes, Colleagues conducting the single point of contact role for Low-level-concerns, Colleagues involved in development and delivery of induction and inset programmes.
• Platform: Zoom (online)

Course outline

This webinar aims to demonstrate the importance of taking staff and volunteer behaviour and conduct beyond policy.  It seeks to demonstrate the added value and assurance that co-production of staff codes of conduct can bring to the ongoing development of safer cultures.  It is suitable for Trustees, Governors, and Leaders responsible for ensuring safer working cultures, HR professionals, Colleagues conducting the single point of contact role for Low-level-concerns, and anyone looking to further develop their knowledge and understanding in safeguarding.

Training topics will include

Statutory, non-statutory and regulatory guidance details the requirement of policy and procedure detailing expectations of behavioural conduct of volunteers, visitors, and employees.

Whilst there are good examples of behaviours to avoid that may be adapted to organisational context within staff behaviour policies; there is also credible opinion that lack of attention to careful implementation could be counterproductive.

This webinar is essential for all involved with leadership, oversight and implementation of safer recruitment and maintenance of safer working cultures who are ambitious in their aims to deliver best practice in maintaining safeguarding cultures and mitigate risk.

This webinar will;

• Review the features of safer organisations
• Identify where co-production activity fits within safer recruitment, professional development, and HR processes
• Demonstrate how co-production activity may be facilitated

Apply the concept of co-production to reflective review a position of trust prohibition case study.

Learning outcomes

• Delegates will have the opportunity to reflect on the meaning of safer organisations
• Delegates will have the opportunity to identify opportunities and reflect on models of co-production
• Delegates will have the opportunity to review how the concept of co-production may be applied to risk mitigation activity using a position of trust case study

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Speaker: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding BSA Group, Director Sacpa

Claire is Director of Safeguarding at BSA Group and Director of Sacpa. Claire leads on the development of Sacpa, the provision of safeguarding advice and support to members and the development and delivery of CPD and safeguarding consultancy services across BSA Group. Claire is a safeguarding specialist with a background in education welfare, youth justice, and early help contexts which have involved a strong focus on diverse and collaborative 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. Thereafter Claire provided a range of safeguarding consultancy, pieces of safeguarding training, professional conduct, and review work on a freelance basis.