Safeguarding considerations for short term placements and summer schools
🏷️ From £135
🎧 DSL, DDSL, Senior leaders, pastoral support, behaviour leads, early help workers, support workers, family workers, safeguarding leads
📍 Online
Course Outline:
This seminar, designed specifically for summer school staff working with international students, will equip you with the essential knowledge and tools to create a safe and inclusive environment for the students joining your summer school programme. Safeguarding should be a priority and all staff involved in the summer school provision should understand what safeguarding means in practical terms, but also what it means from a child-centred approach. This seminar will highlight the key safeguarding information required by practitioners, and also give insight into the specific needs to best safeguard international students.
Training topics will include:
- Safeguarding and your Duty of Care
- Understanding and following safeguarding policies, procedures and ensuring you follow a robust safeguarding framework
- The unique needs of international students: language barriers, cultural differences and homesickness
- Identifying and responding to a safeguarding concern.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of the session, participants will:
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of safeguarding principles and requirements and their application in a summer school environment
- Develop cultural sensitivity and communication skills to better connect with and support students
- Improve your confidence in identifying and responding to a safeguarding concern
- Ensuring compliance with UK safeguarding regulations and legal obligations.
This event will be held jointly with:
Speaker:
Dr Mariya Ali, Director of SACPA
Mariya Ali is an internationally recognised safeguarding and child protection expert with over 30 years of experience across advisory, academic, legal, and leadership roles. She previously served as Deputy Minister in the Maldives, leading national reforms in child protection, and has worked with UNICEF, Save the Children, and Lumos on developing protection systems globally. With qualifications in Human Rights, Social Work, and Traumatic Stress, she has published widely on child rights, online safety, and trauma-informed safeguarding. Known for her strategic vision and practical expertise, Mariya brings both global insight and local implementation experience, making her a strong asset to SACPA.
Dale Wilkins, Executive Director, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance
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.
