SACPA – Transitional Safeguarding and Extra-familial Risk

13 June 2025 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Date: June 13, 2025
Time: 10:30 – 11:30
Cost: SACPA Member Rate: £90, SACPA Additional Full Member Fee: £45, Non-member Rate: £180*
Audience: All safeguarding practitioners involved in transitional and contextual safeguarding approaches to support the wellbeing of young people. Sixth form colleagues, university, college, employers and apprenticeship providers.
Platform: Zoom (online) – webinar

Course outline:

Transitions from one setting to another, and from childhood to adulthood, are recognised turning points and islands of vulnerability as young people gain adult status, greater agency and independence.

This webinar gives a brief overview of what extra-familial risk is and who is most vulnerable. It explores how contextual safeguarding approaches, in conjunction with transitional safeguarding tools, support and protect young people as they prepare to fly the nest.

Training topics will include:

What is extra-familial risk and what does it include and who is most vulnerable?
Extra familial risk and transitional safeguarding: does it have a role in outduction?
Contextual safeguarding approaches to extra-familial risk including preventative education programmes and disruption.

Learning outcomes:

Increased knowledge and understanding of the scope of extra-familial risk
Improved understanding of how contextual safeguarding approaches and working together to disrupt extra-familial risk positively impacts safeguarding outcomes for young people who are moving on to adult life
Confidence about how programmes of outduction and transitional safeguarding tools may contribute to improved safeguarding outcomes.

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Speaker:

Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding and Director, Sacpa

Claire is Director of Safeguarding and Director, Sacpa and leads on the provision of safeguarding advice and support to members and the development and delivery of CPD and safeguarding consultancy services. Claire is a safeguarding specialist and leader with a background in education welfare, youth justice, and early help contexts which have involved a strong focus on diverse and collaborative partnerships, professional development and supervision of front-line safeguarding colleagues, and leading 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, and since 2013 has delivered pieces of bespoke consultancy work, and providing a range of safeguarding consultancy on a freelance basis.