SACPA & HIEDA – Mental Health and Safeguarding conference

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• Date: November 05, 2024 
• Time: 09:30 – 16:30
• Cost: SACPA/HIEDA Member Rate: £235,  SACPA/HIEDA Additional Full Member Fee: £110, SACPA/HIEDA Full Member Whole School Fee: £490, Non-member Rate: £470*
• Audience: Health centre staff, safeguarding leads, school counsellors, pastoral support professionals, matrons, governors and trustees responsible for safeguarding and health
• Platform: Zoom (online) – conference

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Course outline:

This Conference focuses on mental health from a range of perspectives and with a particular focus on key practice challenges for health centres and safeguarding teams.

SACPA and HIEDA promise to bring a day packed with expert speakers from a range of disciplines and perspectives who aim to inform, challenge, and invigorate on the subject of mental health and safeguarding.

SACPA and HIEDA will facilitate questions directly from members to our experts throughout the day and encourage delegates to come prepared with questions for our panels.

Training topics will include:

• Keynote address
• Managing self-harm and suicidal ideation
• Partnership working: health and safeguarding in education
• Safe in school, safe to board
• Information sharing: the boundary between health confidentiality and safeguarding
• Evaluating how the Seacole standard impacts whole school safeguarding

Learning outcomes: 

• Delegates will enhance their understanding of how safeguarding and health teams effectively collaborate to find routes to wellness and greater safety for children
• Delegates will consider approaches to managing self-harm and suicidal ideation
• Delegates will consider practice dilemmas, helpful tools and practical solutions to fitness to attend and fitness to board situations
• Delegates will develop greater understanding of how to effectively risk assess safeguarding situations whilst maintain appropriate health confidentiality
• Delegates will evaluate how implementation of the Seacole Standard for health centres positively impacts whole school approaches to safeguarding

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Programme:

09.30 – 10.15

Keynote address

Our keynote speaker identifies current themes and draws out the important links, challenges and support pathways for emotional wellbeing and mental health.  How may safeguarding and health teams effectively collaborate to find routes to wellness and greater safety for children.

Chair: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group and Director, SACPA

Speaker: Lisa Thompson, Charlie Waller Trust

10:15 – 10:30

Break

10:30 – 11:30

Managing self-harm and suicidal ideation

In this session our speaker explores the elements of managing self-harm and suicidal ideation.  What are the elements of assessing risk and the indicators that would suggest a critical response is required.

Chair: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group and Director, SACPA

Speaker: Lisa Jones, Therapist and Coach, Lisa Jones Coaching

11:30 – 11:45

Break

11:45 – 12:30

Partnership working: health and safeguarding in education

In this session our speakers draw on multi-agency practice guidance to explore the important relationship between education safeguarding and health professionals.  How can professionals with safeguarding responsibilities effectively work together to provide a joined-up approach that always puts the child at the centre.

Chair: Gaelle Sullivan, Director of Research, Inclusion and IELA

Speakers:

• Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group and Director, SACPA
• Skyler Moulder, Nurse Advisor

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 14:30

Safe in school, safe to board

Children have the right to education, but they also have the right to safety.  The challenge of safety planning for children living with mental health difficulties involves safeguarding and health teams to work together to establish how safety can be maintained in the school and boarding context.  Our panel discuss practice dilemmas, helpful tools and practical solutions.

Chair: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group and Director, SACPA

Speakers:

• Kate Corbin, Deputy head, West Buckland School    
• Alice Beard, Lead nurse, Sherborne Girls’ School 

14:30 – 14:45

Break

14:45 – 15:30

Information sharing: the boundary between health confidentiality and safeguarding

In this session, our speaker evaluates the government advice, principles and guidance for health professionals, pastoral leads and safeguarding in predominantly a boarding school setting.

Chair: Beth Hudson, Executive Director Specialist Services and Director, BAISIS, BSA Group

Speakers:

• Leanne Rowlands, Assistant Head Pastoral, Charterhouse School
• Ed Poynter, Deputy Head Pastoral, Charterhouse School

15:30 – 15:45

Break

15:45 – 16:30

Evaluating how the Seacole standard impacts whole school safeguarding

Our speakers look back at their development since implementing the Seacole Standard.  What has changed for the better, were there any challenges and how far did implementation of the standard positively impact whole school approaches to safeguarding.

Chair: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group and Director, SACPA

Speakers:

• Tracey Coles, Lead nurse, Wellington College
• Sarah Harris, Senior School Nurse, Rugby School
• Karenann Hood, Deputy Head Pastoral, Denstone College
• Michelle Edge, Lead Nurse, Denstone College

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Speakers:

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.

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Beth Hudson, Executive Director Specialist Services and Director, BAISIS, BSA Group

Bethan Waddington joined the BSA team as Training Manager in September 2017. Bethan has worked in two independent boarding schools in the UK and Switzerland, the latter as Housemistress to 36 pupils. Following her time in Switzerland, she was a Pastoral Manager for an inner-city state academy before working in the charity sector for Debrett’s running the ‘Debrett’s Foundation’ training programme.

In her role, Bethan plans and manages all Day Seminars, Conferences, INSET and Consultancy, as well as being Director of BAISIS. She believes boarding can be a positive force for young people and in order to fully support their needs staff can never learn too much. As such she is passionate about the CPD BSA delivers to our pastoral communities in the UK and worldwide.

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Gaelle Sullivan, Director of Research, Inclusion and IELA 

Gaelle is Head of Research Services and Inclusion 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.

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Lisa Thompson, Charlie Waller Trust

Lisa has had a long career in a variety of Mental Health settings within the NHS. She originally trained as a Mental Health Nurse in 1990 and subsequently worked in inpatient and community settings with adults, children, young people and their families. She completed a Masters in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and a post graduate diploma in Evidence Based Practice leading to qualifying as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist. Most of her career has been spent working directly with children, young people and families in NHS CAMHS and she now works part time in independent clinical practice. In addition, she works as a freelance trainer for the Charlie Waller Trust delivering training on Mental Health Issues to schools, primary care and a wide variety of organisations working with children and young people. As part of a nonprofit organisation called Brighter Futures Together, she trains NHS CAMHS clinicians to deliver evidence based training to the children’s workforce across the Thames Valley and the South of England.

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Skyler Moulder, Nurse Advisor

Skyler did her Adult Nursing BSc at Kings College London in 2011 and went straight into community nursing. After the birth of her first son she stumbled into community school nursing and never looked back. During her time as a community school nurse she covered primary and secondary schools all across Cambridgeshire. She completed training such as the CAMHS foundation module, Sexual Health and Contraception module and was trained in Safeguarding Children Level 3. She completed her PG Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing in 2016 when she was pregnant with her second son, which she later topped up to a full MSc in 2023 when she was pregnant with her daughter! This also included qualifying as a Nurse Prescriber. Skyler co-lead the development of a 0-19 Duty Desk and the introduction of the Chathealth text service in Cambridgeshire Community Services. In 2019 she became a Team Manager for the CCS Healthy Child Programme – managing a team of Nursery Nurses, Health Visitors and School Nurses during the pandemic. In 2020 she was recruited to be the Lead Nurse at The Leys in Cambridge, to lead a team covering 24 hour care for around 575 pupils (over half of which are boarders). This is where she is now and where her passion for independent school nursing started.

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Kate Corbin, Deputy Head, West Buckland School    

Kate is currently a Deputy Head & DSL at West Buckland School in North Devon.  This is her second Deputy Headship, having previously worked at Wycliffe College where was also Head of Boarding.  Having originally trained as an Educational Psychologist, Kate moved into independent education to work as Head of Learning Support at Blundell’s and then moved into being a Houseparent.

 

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Alice Beard, Lead Nurse, Sherborne Girls School 

Alice has been a qualified nurse for coming up to 20 years, initially specialising in orthopaedics in the local acute trust, then working as a clinical site manager. As her own family grew, she moved into practice nursing, enjoying the 1-2-1 patient care and finding her passion of health promotion.

She started working for Sherborne Girls 8 years ago as a member of the nursing team and took over as the nurse manager 2 years ago. She loves school nursing and the age range of the pupils in her care; she has seen many changes in the needs of her pupils and every day presents a different scenario or challenge.

Her and her team have a passion to ensure, the pupils leave SG, with the confidence and knowledge on how best to look after their health and wellbeing.

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Lisa Jones, Therapist and Coach, Lisa Jones Coaching

Lisa Jones is a multi-award-winning, science driven, fact-based therapist, coach and passionate trainer who believes that prevention is better than intervention. Lisa works in both the corporate and education sector teaching others the importance of brain health, resilience, stress management and emotional wellbeing as well as running a busy private practice. Lisa is a fully qualified and insured Psychotherapist, Counsellor, Health Coach and Mental Health Consultant registered with The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She is also a senior accredited member of The National Counselling Society and The Association for Coaching. After graduating with a BSc (Hons) in Counselling & Psychotherapy, Lisa went on to work with adults to overcome addiction and mental health issues. Having experienced chronic ill health for many years, Lisa developed a keen interest in brain health and the brain / mind/ body connection. Lisa was fascinated by how our minds can influence our wellbeing and vice versa. After overcoming her own health issues, she then specialised in the field of chronic ill health and stress. Lisa went on to certify in Applied Neuroscience and Brain Health, Applied Neuroscience and Coaching and Women’s Health and Neurobiology. She also gained a NLP Practitioner Coaching Diploma and certified as a Life Coaching Practitioner, Youth Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, Hypnotherapy Practitioner, Mental Health First Aid and completed a BPS approved certificate in clinical supervision. The specific focus of her work addresses the mind-body connection and the impact our language (self-talk) and belief system has on all aspects of health and wellbeing as well as self-esteem and confidence. The principles of Neuroscience underpin the work Lisa does as she believes it is essential to educate people on how the brain works, how to influence mindset and to understand neuroplasticity (the ability of the brain to form and re-organise neural connections). By doing so, this enables us to build resilience, develop essential life skills and learn how to manage stress effectively. Together with her business partner, Veronika Chidemo – a Teacher and School Mental Health Leadership Consultant, she co-founded HeadStrong Training in Education. Lisa and Veronika are passionate about an integrative approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing in Education and believe that everyone should be equipped with essential skills to confidently manage the stresses in life.

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Tracey Coles, Lead Nurse, Wellington College

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Sarah Harris, Senior School Nurse, Rugby School

Sarah completed her pre-registration training at Canterbury Christ Church University College and qualified as paediatric nurse in 2000. She moved back to her home town & consolidated her learning through the 18 month newly qualified nurse programme at the Children’s Hospital at Leicester Royal Infirmary where she gained experience in medical/neurorehab, surgical, children’s intensive care and children’s emergency admissions. She remained on the Children’s Emergency Admissions unit before moving back to the surgical ward as a deputy sister. Sarah left the children’s hospital to undertake her BSc Hons degree in public health nursing with a Specialist Practitioner qualification in School Nursing at the University of Northampton.

Following this she worked as a public health practitioner with a small school nursing caseload for a year before returning to the Children’s Emergency Admissions Unit. After the birth of her son Sarah became a Diana Children’s Community Nurse looking after children with acute, long term and palliative conditions in their own homes and was also part of the training team delivering training packages for families, school staff and carers of children with additional health needs. Sarah was always keen to return to school nursing and in 2014 when both her children were at school she started work at Rugby School, becoming the senior nurse shortly after starting. Sarah leads a team of 5 nurses and 2 administrators providing healthcare support, advice and training to the pupils and staff at Rugby School.

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Karenann Hood, Deputy Head Pastoral, Denstone College

Karenann is currently Deputy Head Pastoral and DSL of a 4-18 day and boarding school in Staffordshire, where she is also the Head of the Psychology Department. Karenann started her teaching life as a Teacher of Biology and Assistant Housemistress, before taking on the running of two boarding houses prior to her current role. She have 30 years in Education, am is an ISI inspector and a chartered Psychologist. Karenann has a deep passion for both psychology and all aspects of Pastoral life.

 

 

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Michelle Edge, Lead Nurse, Denstone College

Michelle qualified as a paediatric nurse in 1993. She worked at the Royal Stoke hospital for 25 years in acute medicine based on the wards where she gained experience in the care of children with Asthma, Diabetes, Epilepsy and acute medical emergencies. Michelle has also worked to support children with ongoing mental health concerns and supported transition from hospital back into the home environment with non invasive ventilation.

Michelle joined Denstone College in 2018 taking up the role of Lead Nurse in 2023. She believes it is really important that pupils with ongoing medical conditions are fully supported and that they should have access to all aspects of an education regardless of their condition.

During Covid she returned to Royal Stoke to help support the Paediatric Intensive Care team while they cared for adult patients with covid, the Neonatal Unit and also supported to the local Covid vaccination centres.

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Ed Poynter, Deputy Head Pastoral, Charterhouse School

Ed started teaching in 2010 via the Graduate Teacher Programme (University College London) following a career in the British Army where he served as an infantry officer with the Royal Green Jackets (and latterly the Rifles) in Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Ed taught English in London state and day schools, before his first taste of working in a boarding environment at Ardingly College in West Sussex. Ed’s next post was as a Housemaster at Charterhouse for eight years, before taking on his current role (also at Charterhouse) as Deputy Head (Pastoral).

He holds a BA in English and Classics from the University of Exeter and a Masters in Educational Leadership from the University of Buckingham. He is married to a pre-prep teacher and they have three school age children.

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Leanne Rowlands, Assistant Head Pastoral, Charterhouse School

Leanne has over 20 years of boarding experience in Independent Schools, namely St Edwards’ Oxford, Marlborough College (UK and Malaysia), Tudor Hall, Bradfield College and currently at Charterhouse School where she is Assistant Head Pastoral and a trained DSL with responsibility for Online Safety.  For over 13 years, Leanne ran both horizontal and vertical boarding houses and then Moved to Malaysia in 2012 to set up girls boarding at Marlborough College.  She also has been a Head of Girls Sport and Head of Department (Academic Physical Education and Psychology). Alongside her role as AHP, Leanne is also responsible for overseeing the International Pupil’s Co-ordinator, Lead Nurse and Guardians at Charterhouse.  Leanne has been instrumental in establishing co-education at Charterhouse where she also oversees and audits the implementation of the NMS across the 15 boarding houses.