Sacpa – Understanding `reasonable adjustment’ and `defensible decisions’

• Date: March 22, 2023
• Time: 15:00 – 16:00
• Cost: Sacpa Member – £60, Additional Sacpa Member – £20, Non-member – £120
• Audience: All practitioners working with children, young people and vulnerable individuals
• Platform: Zoom (online) – Webinar

Does your organisation understand its legal duties and required approaches to making adjustments for the individual needs of service users and staff?

The emphasis on the need for awareness of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in safeguarding guidance continues to grow.  It is critical to avoid unlawful discrimination and to discharge the duty to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 as well as understand evolving Government guidance on best practice in supporting children with SEND.

This webinar highlights the legal landscape relating to disability discrimination and in particular your duty to make reasonable adjustments.

Training topics will include:

• Review of key equality legislation and safeguarding guidance
• What is disability?
• Case study application of adjustments: are they reasonable?

Learning outcomes:

• Delegates will increase their knowledge and awareness of key equality duties
• Delegates will review key legislation and guidance for SEND
• Delegates will consider the application of `reasonable adjustment’ decisions using case study scenarios

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Speaker: Ben Collingwood, Partner, Moore Barlow

Ben specialises in advising independent schools and other charities on wide ranging areas of education law, with particular focus on reputation issues, pastoral, safeguarding, historic abuse allegations, SEN, exclusions, parent/pupil complaints, data protection, parent contracts, admissions and staff matters of all types.

Ben has written and spoken widely on issues facing the independent schools sector, providing comment in The Times, The Guardian, The Lawyer and Law Society’s Gazette and at the national conferences and training programmes for the various associations that support independent schools including BSA, ISBA, HMC, IAPS and AGBIS.

Ben lives with his wife and three children in West Sussex. He have been a devoted surfer since childhood and loves to spend as much of his free time as possible in the sea and walking his pointers with his family