SACPA – Managing Allegations and Low-level Concerns

September 26 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Date: September 26, 2024
Time: 10:30 – 11:30
Cost: SACPA Member Rate: £90, SACPA Additional Full Member Fee: £45, Non-member Rate: £180*
Audience: DSL, DDSL, Safeguarding Leads, Senior Leaders, Trustees, Governors, Values Guardians
Platform: Zoom (online) – webinar

Course outline:

Responding to and managing allegations and low-level concerns is an essential process and compliance responsibility. This webinar is suitable for Trustees, Governors and Leaders responsible for oversight and maintenance of safer organisations, designated and deputy designated safeguarding leads, values guardians and nominated persons responsible for co-ordinating response to low-level-concerns, colleagues responsible for safer recruitment and HR processes from all sectors. This webinar provides an overview of core topics relating to responding to concerns and allegations including reporting and referral processes, training, signposting and ensuring everyone understands how safeguarding relates to them, managing difficult conversations, and the importance of transparency.

Training topics will include:

Responding to and managing allegations and low-level concerns is an essential process and compliance responsibility.  From ensuring that the whole organisation is aware of policy and process and understand cultural/behavioural expectations relating to safeguarding and child protection.
Embedding safer working cultures and implementing policy and procedure that underpins them is a task that is complex, which involves managing difficult conversations and making appropriate referrals to external agencies which are important to get right.

This webinar is suitable for all sectors and provides an overview of core topics relating to responding to concerns and allegations including;

Safer recruitment, reporting and referral processes
Training, signposting and ensuring everyone understands how safeguarding relates to them
Managing difficult conversations
The importance of transparency.

Delegates will:

Review their understanding of why policy, procedure and guidance are so important
Review tips and suggestions for organisational training/briefings and signposting
Review recommended referral processes and methods of analysis for low-level-concerns.

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Speaker:

Alice Vicary-Stott, Director of Safeguarding, Eton College

Alice takes specific responsibility for all safeguarding and child protection matters in school.

She exercises her responsibilities in conjunction with 6 Deputy DSL’s, who are currently the Lower Master, the Deputy Head (Pastoral), the Director of Boarding, the Director of Welfare, the Deputy Director of Music and the Safeguarding Co-ordinator.

Alice has a degree in Social Work, and has worked in Children’s Social Care throughout her career in a variety of social care departments. Before joining Eton, Alice was a Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) for Kingston, Richmond, Windsor and Maidenhead. In this role she was in charge of child protection services working closely with both maintained and independent schools, police, other statutory agencies, health, charities, voluntary, independent and private sector organisations. At this time, Alice was also chair of the National LADO Network.