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SUMMARY:Annual safeguarding conference
DESCRIPTION:🏷️From £250 (Non member Delegate Fee includes 1 year SACPA membership)\n🎧 All those involved in safeguarding\n📍 Broadway House\, Tothill Street\, London SW1H 9NQ\n🏆 Winners announced for the Annual Safeguarding Awards (enter before October 6\, 2026) \n\nWith significant changes to safeguarding guidance now in effect\, this conference provides an essential update for safeguarding professionals across health\, social care\, sports\, and the voluntary sector. Focusing on Working Together 2026\, Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 and contemporary safeguarding practice\, delegates will gain practical insights into creating resilient organisations\, strengthening safeguarding culture and improving outcomes for children and young people. \nBOOK NOW \nThis event will be held jointly with: \n \n\n09:30 – 10:00  Registration & refreshments \n\n10:00 – 10:15  Welcome: The safeguarding journey from regulation to reflection \nAn introduction to the conference theme\, exploring how regulation\, relationships\, reasoning and reflection contribute to effective safeguarding and resilient organisations. \n\nSpeaker: Mariya Ali\, Director of SACPA\n\n\n10:15 – 10:45  Regulate before we educate \nAn immersive movement-based opening experience demonstrating how regulation through movement and sensory experiences supports learning\, well-being and effective safeguarding practice. This session will also focus building on our cultural humility. \n\nSpeaker: Julene Robinson\, Movement Specialist\n\n\n10:45 – 11:00  Break \n\n11:00 – 11:45  Beyond compliance: reflective practice as a safeguarding intervention \nDiscover how reflective practice strengthens professional judgement\, support staff wellbeing and helps build a positive safeguarding culture. \n\nSpeaker: Dr Sylvia B Smith (FHEA\, SWE Registered\, MBASW)\n\n\n11:15 – 12:00  The child’s voice in action: Recruitment\, culture and accountability \nLearn how involving children in recruitment and organisational decision making can strengthen safeguarding culture and accountability. \n\nSpeaker: Tricia Young\, BBC\, Children in Need\n\n\n12:00 – 12:15  How critical are young people’s voice in the discussion of the manosphere?  \n\nSpeaker: Jemima Corcoran \n\n\n12:15 – 12:45  Panel Discussion Trauma-informed workplaces \nExplore how psychologically safe workplaces\, informed by care experience\, can improve wellbeing\, retention and safeguarding practice.  \n\nSpeakers: Mariya Ali\, Louis Donald\,\nChair: Dale Wilkins\n\n\n12:45 – 13:30 Lunch \n\n13:30 – 14:15  Teenage relationship abuse: recognising coercion\, control and harm \nGain practical insights into recognising and responding to abuse in adolescent relationships\, including coercive control and technology- facilitated harm. \n\nSpeaker: Maddi Brunker\, Head of Adult Services at Tender Education and Arts\n\n\n14:15 – 15:00  Safeguarding in 2026: Working Together\, KCSIE and what inspectors expect \nA practical update on the latest safeguarding\, legislation and inspection expectations for education and safeguarding professionals. \n\nSpeaker: Kevin Hartley\, Senior Consultant for the NSPCC\n\n\n15:00 – 15:15 Refreshments \n\n15:15 – 15:45  Artificial intelligence\, sport and safeguarding \nExplore the safeguarding implications of AI\, deepfakes\, digital identity and emerging online risks for children and young people. \n\nSpeaker: Rosalind Harrison\, Social Media and Content Marketer\n\n\n15:45 – 16:30  Closing keynote: why regulation\, relationships and resilience in key for effective safeguarding \nBringing together the day’s key themes\, this keynote explores how organisations can embed resilient\, relationship-based safeguarding cultures. \n\nSpeaker: Dr Jessica Taylor\, CEO – VictimFocus\, PhD\, AFBPsS\, CPsychol\, FRSA\, PGDip\n\n\n16:30 – 16:45  Annual safeguarding awards and close \nThe SACPA Awards are held annually each autumn to celebrate and recognise outstanding contributions to safeguarding and child protection. Interested in entering? Find out more here. Please note\, entries will close on October 1\, 2026. \n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\n\n\nDr Jessica Taylor\, CEO – VictimFocus\, PhD\, AFBPsS\, CPsychol\, FRSA\, PGDip \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Jessica Taylor is a Chartered Psychologist\, multi-Sunday Times bestselling author\, and internationally recognised expert in victimology\, trauma\, and forensic psychology. As CEO of VictimFocus\, she leads the organisation’s strategic direction\, national influence\, and international partnerships. Her work spans the development of evidence-based psychological theory\, high-impact resources\, service frameworks\, and consultancy models used across health\, justice\, education\, and social care.\nWith a wealth of frontline experience working directly with victims and survivors\, Jessica brings a grounded\, practice-informed perspective to her research and leadership. A leading voice in the development of trauma-informed\, anti-oppressive frameworks for systems and services\, she has advised on national policing strategies\, government policy\, and institutional reform in the UK and internationally. Her expertise helps organisations stay ahead of the curve\, align with national guidance and inspection standards\, and implement meaningful\, systemic change. Through her research\, writing\, and public engagement\, she has played a key role in transforming understanding of victim blaming\, trauma-informed practice\, and institutional responses to abuse. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatricia (Tricia) Young\, Interim Director\, Impact and Influence \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nKevin Hartley\, Senior Consultant for the NSPCC \n \nKevin Hartley is a Senior Consultant for the NSPCC. Kevin has worked in secondary education for almost 30 years\, initially as an English teacher\, but later as a Pastoral Lead and then as a member of senior leadership. \nFor most of his career he has been involved in safeguarding and spent 12 years as a DSL in a busy\, diverse 11-18 Academy. He has contributed to the development of policies and procedures at both school and Trust level. \nKevin now works in the NSPCC consultancy service which supports schools and other organisations in developing their safeguarding practices \n\nJulene Robinson\, Movement Specialist \nJulene is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist\, scientist\, and wellbeing practitioner. A Master’s graduate of Rose Bruford College who also holds a BSc in Environmental Chemistry she combines artistic practice with scientific inquiry to explore leadership\, resilience\, and human flourishing. A trained yoga and meditation instructor\, Julene integrates a mind-body-spirit approach into her creative practice\, championing wellbeing\, healing\, and sustainable creativity. Recognised by Arts Council England as a global leader in theatre and performance\, Julene’s work centres on the power of storytelling to inspire personal and social transformation. Through performance\, facilitation\, and research\, she empowers artists\, leaders\, and communities to cultivate resilience\, lead with authenticity\, and build cultures of care. \n\n \nDr Sylvia B Smith (FHEA\, SWE Registered\, MBASW) \nSylvia is Founder and Director of Incline Training Consultants Ltd\, specialising in social work education\, leadership development\, and anti-racist practice. Her doctoral research examined how psychoanalytical approaches can strengthen social work leadership. She offers reflective practice\, coaching\, and supervision to individuals\, groups\, and teams across the sector\, and is co-convenor of The Reflective Practice Research Network. Sylvia’s work includes commissioned evaluation of anti-racist practice strategy and supporting doctoral students in their research development. She hosts the Social Workers Matter podcast\, serves as Vice Chair of a Fostering and Adoption Panel and is currently one of the guest editors for a special issue of the British Journal of Social Work due for publication in the autumn. \n\nRosalind Harrison\, Social Media and Content Marketer \nRos Harrison is a social media and video content specialist who supports schools and child-focused organisations in using online communications safely. Ros has 20 years of experience working with children and young people in both the public and third sectors\, including facilitating safeguarding and CEOP training for local authority youth workers and developing domestic abuse awareness programmes for staff and pupils in primary settings. With 15 years of experience as a digital marketer\, specialising in GDPR and compliance\, across professional services and local authorities\, she now helps schools develop effective management systems and robust safeguarding practices when representing themselves on social media through her business\, Harrison Media Solutions. \n\nJemima Corcoran\, Student\, UCL \nJemima Corcoran is a final-year undergraduate at UCL\, studying English Literature and Language. She has spent the last year as Editor at EdFringe Review and has recently entered the role Editor-in-Chief at UCL’s media outlet\, Pi Online for 2026-7\, having previously worked as their Lifestyle & Culture section editor. Originally from Brighton\, she has a strong interest in animal welfare\, environmental issues\, and women’s rights. A regular contributor to Pi Online\, her work ranges from theatre reviews and investigative lifestyle features to political commentary\, earning her Top Ten shortlist recognition at the SPA National Awards for both Best Lifestyle Piece and Best Culture Writer. Jemima has also worked as an on-screen presenter for PiTV at UCL\, where she conducted interviews on student culture\, politics\, and current issues. She has had her articles shared by Zack Polanski\, Deborah Frances White\, and Tom Read Wilson. She aims to pursue a career in journalism and media after graduating. \n\nMaddi Brunker\, Head of Adult Services at Tender Education and Arts\, \nMaddi brings over 13 years of experience working within the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) sector. Her career spans frontline service delivery\, management of an Independent Domestic Violence Advocate (IDVA) service\, and leadership in preventative education and intervention programmes. Maddi has delivered specialist training on domestic abuse and sexual violence for adult safeguarding boards\, local authorities\, universities\, and educational settings. She has also contributed to research led by Durham University in partnership with Galop\, and to parliamentary reports produced by SafeLives\, helping to inform policy and practice across the sector. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLouis Donald FRSA\, Founder & Principal Safeguarding Partner of EduShield and a former Executive Education (Safeguarding) Director at a nationwide multi-academy trust. \nLouis is recognised nationally for expertise in safeguarding\, inspection readiness\, crisis management\, and school improvement across multi-academy trusts. Louis has advised the Department for Education on safeguarding policy\, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic\, and is the first education professional to qualify as a Gold Multi-Agency Strategic Commander. He chairs the Queen Street Group Safeguarding Directors Forum\, sits on the NASSA board\, and serves on the British Army’s Independent Advisory Group. Trusted for his calm\, strategic leadership\, Louis supports leaders navigating complex Safeguarding challenges. \n\nDr Mariya Ali\, Director\, SACPA \nMariya is an internationally recognised safeguarding and child protection expert with over 20 years’ multidisciplinary experience. She has held senior advisory\, academic\, legal\, and leadership roles\, including serving as Maldives Minister of Gender\, Family\, and Human Rights\, leading reforms in child protection law and policy. Internationally\, she has advised UNICEF\, UNDP\, and ECPAT on child sexual abuse\, exploitation\, and protection systems. Holding qualifications in law and child psychology\, she has published widely on child rights\, online safety\, and trauma-informed practice. Mariya’s strategic vision\, policy expertise\, and frontline insight equip her to bring both global perspective and local understanding to SACPA’s mission. \n\nDale Wilkins\, Executive Director\, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance \nDale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards. 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\, the annual Safeguarding Conference\, the Safeguarding Forum. He has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our overseas members. \nFor 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College\, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992\, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007\, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board and has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding since 2002. Dale had previously been a BSA course tutor since 1998 and developed the BSA Self-Assessment Toolkit.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/annual-safeguarding-conference-2/
LOCATION:Broadway House\, Tothill St\, London SW1H 9NQ
CATEGORIES:Conference,In-person
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SUMMARY:Prep Boarding Conference 2026
DESCRIPTION:  \n🏷️ From £110\n🎧 Prep boarding staff\, senior leaders\, marketing and admissions\n📍 Dragon School\, Oxford. \n\nBSA Prep Boarding Conference 2026 is a one-day professional development event for educators and leaders in prep school boarding. The conference covers best practices in providing outstanding academic and pastoral care\, managing pupil transitions\, and key operational areas such as admissions\, compliance\, and staff retention. Expert-led sessions and a collaborative round table discussion will provide practical strategies and insights\, with a special focus on the crucial topic of pupil wellbeing and sleep optimisation. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nDeveloping outstanding academic and pastoral provision\, with a focus on supporting a smooth transition to senior boarding.\nCreating a strategic roadmap for marketing\, admissions\, compliance\, and staff retention in prep boarding schools.\nApplying strategies to improve pupil wellbeing through optimised sleep environments and routines.\n\nLearning Outcomes \nParticipants will be able to: \n\nIdentify and apply best practices for delivering outstanding academic\, pastoral\, and boarding provision in a prep school setting.\nImplement strategies that effectively support pupils in their transition from prep to senior boarding.\nDevelop a strategic roadmap for marketing\, admissions\, and compliance that drives enrolment growth and meets inspection standards.\nRecruit and retain high-quality staff and pupils by addressing key challenges in the boarding sector.\nApply practical techniques to promote healthier sleep and improve the overall wellbeing of boarding pupils.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nProgramme: \n09:30 – 10:00            Registration & refreshments \nNetworking and arrival. \n\n10:00 – 11.00             Belonging: Why Prep Boarding Matters\n \nSetting out the opportunity for prep and junior boarding and asking: what do we want children to say about having boarded with us?  \n What makes a boarding experience genuinely exceptional for a younger child? An exploration of belonging\, relationships\, independence\, adventure and the small everyday moments that create great boarding.   \n\n11:00 – 12:00              UKVI Compliance: Being inspection ready \nAn update on the latest UKVI rules\, regulations and inspections. An opportunity to put your questions and issues to the BSA Legal team.  \n\n12:00 – 13:00            Lunch\, networking and boarding tour   \nOptional boarding-house/school tour if the venue permits. \n\n13:00 – 13:45             People Make the Place: Building Boarding Teams with Energy and Staying Power  \nExplore recruitment\, induction\, workload\, rotas\, supervision\, professional development\, recognition and creating a culture in which staff can enjoy boarding rather than simply administer it.    \n\n13:45 – 14:30             Prep Forum Meeting & Round-table discussion \n\n14:30 – 15:00             Refreshments and networking \n\n15:00 – 16:00            Safe\, Seen and Heard: Safeguarding in the Real Life of a Boarding House \nMove beyond “being inspection ready” to creating a culture in which safeguarding is visible in everyday decisions.  \n\n16:00                           Conference ends \n\n 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/prep-boarding-conference-2/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Agents Networking - South
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ Free for member schools\n🎧 Admissions\, marketing and international recruitment staff\, Heads\, Deputy Heads and senior leaders involved in international strategy. Schools seeking to develop or refine their agent networks\n📍 Headington School\, Oxford \n\nCourse outline: \nAgent Networking is a face-to-face event designed for schools seeking to build strong\, effective relationships with international education agents. Developed in response to feedback from recent forums and events\, this format moves beyond traditional recruitment fairs\, focusing instead on meaningful engagement\, professional networking and long-term partnership building. \nHosted at leading boarding schools across the UK\, each event combines sector insight\, school engagement and structured networking\, providing delegates with the opportunity to connect with trusted agents in a focused and productive environment. \nWhat to expect \n\nA welcome from the host school and\, where available\, an opportunity to tour the school and its facilities\nMorning conference sessions offering sector insights\, market updates and guidance on working effectively with education agents\nNetworking lunch with attending agents and fellow school representatives\nStructured afternoon networking\, with dedicated meeting times enabling schools and agents to hold meaningful one-to-one conversations\n\nKey benefits for schools \n\nMeet a broad range of trusted education agents in a professional setting\nBuild relationships that support international recruitment and long-term growth\nGain valuable insight into agent perspectives\, emerging markets and current trends\nLearn from sector experts and experienced practitioners\nExplore potential partnerships through dedicated networking opportunities\nExperience a host school and share best practice with colleagues from across the sector\n\nFree for BSA member schools \nAs part of our commitment to supporting schools with international recruitment and partnership development\, BSA member schools can attend Agent Networking events free of charge. \nNon-member schools are also welcome to attend. Please see the booking information for applicable rates. \nLimited free places for Certified Agents remain. Email bsa@boarding.org.uk to book. \nBOOK YOUR PLACE HERE
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/agents-networking-london/
LOCATION:Headington School\, Headington School\, Oxford\, OX3 7TD
CATEGORIES:Conference,In-person
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SUMMARY:Irish boarding conference
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £110\n🎧 Heads\, Deputies\, Bursars\, all boarding staff\, EAL staff\, Admissions and Marketing.\n📍 Villiers School\, North Circular Road\, Limerick\, V94 F983\, Ireland \n\nThe Irish Boarding Conference returns for 2026\, bringing together boarding professionals from across Ireland to explore the opportunities and challenges shaping modern boarding.  \nHosted by Villiers School\, this year’s conference focuses on creating exceptional boarding communities that are safe\, inclusive\, sustainable and future-ready. Through expert-led discussions\, practical case studies and valuable networking opportunities\, delegates will examine how boarding continues to evolve in response to changing pupil needs\, family expectations and the wider educational landscape.  \nWhether you lead a boarding school\, manage a boarding house or support pupils every day\, you’ll leave with fresh ideas\, practical strategies and renewed connections with colleagues facing many of the same opportunities and challenges.  \nOpen to members and non-members\, the conference provides an excellent opportunity to share best practice\, celebrate innovation and strengthen boarding provision across Ireland.  \nEarly booking is recommended. \nBOOK NOW \n\nProgramme: \n09:30 – 10:00             Registration\, refreshments and networking \n\n10:00 – 10.10             Welcome and opening Remarks\nJill Storey \nAn introduction to the day’s themes\, current developments in Irish boarding\, and opportunities for collaboration across the sector.  \n\n10.10 – 11:00             Inclusion\nSusan Pena \n\n11:00 – 12:00             AI\, Digital Life and Healthy Boundaries \n \nRound-table discussion on hot topics. \n\n12.15 – 13.00             Lunch\, networking and boarding tour \n\n13.00 – 13:45             Safeguarding update: Emerging risks and best practice\nDale Wilkins\, Executive Director\,  BSA Group Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance \nSafeguarding remains at the centre of outstanding boarding provision. This session highlights current developments\, emerging themes and practical strategies to strengthen safeguarding culture\, ensuring schools remain confident and prepared for the year ahead.  \n\n13:45 – 14:30             Findings from Irish Boarding Survey \nGaelle Sullivan\, Director of Research\, Inclusion and IELA \n\n14.30 – 15.00             Refreshments and networking \n\n15:00 – 16.00             Supporting international boarders\nMark Mortimer \n\n16:00                           Conference ends \n\nSpeakers: \n \nGaelle Sullivan\, Director of Research\, Inclusion and IELA \nGaelle is Director of Research\, Inclusion and IELA and joined the BSA in January 2023. She is an experienced senior leader and has worked in a range of state and independent schools. She is a qualified SENCO and holds a Masters Degree in Inclusive Education. Prior to joining the BSA\, Gaelle was Deputy Head Pastoral\, DSL and Head of Boarding at an all-girls independent school in the South-East. \n  \n\nDale Wilkins\, FTIOB\, Executive Director\, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance\nDale joined the BSA in 2017 to lead safeguarding\, inspection\, and compliance across the UK\, building on his experience as a course tutor since 1998. He works closely with ISI\, Ofsted\, and the DfE\, while also overseeing the Group’s work in Scotland and Wales. A trainer and consultant for BSA and SACPA\, he is Vice Chair of SAFCAB. Dale previously spent 31 years as a boarding practitioner\, including roles as Housemaster and Deputy Head at Old Swinford Hospital. Beyond education\, he trains for the Methodist Church\, is a charity trustee\, chairs a performing arts organisation\, and volunteers widely. \n  \n\nMark Mortimer \nMark spent eight years as an infantry officer in the British Army\, was briefly a management consultant\, and then spent 25 years working in boarding schools; he was the Head of three BSA and HMC schools in both England and Scotland and was also the HMC Representative to the CCF Association and to the Armed Forces. He spent ten years on the HMC Professional Development Committee\, was an ISI inspector\, and a board member of the Scottish Council for Independent Schools (SCIS). He has twice rowed across the Atlantic\, completed the Marathon des Sables and cycled through the Arctic Circle. \n  \n\nJill Storey\, Head of School at Villiers School. \nJill holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and Philosophy and a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the National University of Ireland\, Galway. Jill has also achieved a Higher Diploma in Secondary Education and Teaching from University College Dublin\, a Graduate Diploma in Additional Educational Needs (AEN) from the Church of Ireland College of Education\, a Graduate Diploma in Equality\, Diversity & Inclusion from the University of Limerick\, and in 2024 qualified in Coaching Practice & Ethics (Specialising in Educational Leadership Coaching). \nJill taught English and led the Additional Educational Needs (AEN) department at Villiers School for more than eleven years\, before being appointed Head of School in 2011. Under Jill’s leadership\, in 2017\, Villiers was the second school in Ireland to be authorised as an IB World School. Jill leads the DEI Working Group in Villiers School\, and her passion for equity and inclusion consistently inspires the entire school community. \n\nSusan Peña\, Admissions\, Marketing & Communications Manager at Villiers School. \nSusan is an Alumna of Villiers School and holds an Honours Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the National University of Ireland\, Galway\, as well as an International Diploma from Shannon College of Hotel Management. Susan’s background is in Hotel Management\, with 12 years of experience in hotels and resorts in both Europe and the United States. \nSusan returned to Ireland with her family in 2018 and joined the team at Villiers School. Susan is a DEI Lead at Villiers and has a particular passion for people\, relationships\, and celebrating diversity. \nIn 2020\, Susan achieved a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Limerick\, with a research focus on Marketing and Communications\, and most recently\, in 2023\, achieved a Graduate Diploma in Equality\, Diversity & Inclusion from the University of Limerick. \nSusan is currently a member of the Diversity & Inclusion in Education Network (DIEN) in Ireland and is a mentor in DEI for Network Ireland.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/irish-boarding-conference/
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