Sacpa Day Seminar – Safeguarding Children in After School Clubs, Children’s Community Activities, Clubs and Tuition

• Date: April 21, 2023
• Time: 09:30 – 11:30
• Cost: Sacpa Full Member – £100, Non-member – £200
• Audience: This comprehensive one-day seminar is for all leaders, proprietors and aspiring of out of school clubs, activities and classes.
• Platform: Zoom (online)

Course outline

This one-day interactive seminar has been developed to bridge the gap between basic safeguarding e-learning and designated safeguarding lead training for leaders and proprietors of out of school clubs, activities, and classes

Using case studies relevant to delegates, this seminar delivers a high quality and comprehensive refresh of level 1 safeguarding knowledge and understanding, including health and safety, with the additions of content on;

• safer organisations and safer recruitment
• safeguarding policies and good governance
• leading and working with others on safeguarding including information sharing
• other safeguarding topics specific to clubs, tutors, and children’s activities providers.

Training topics will include:

• Understanding safer organisations and position of trust
• Refresh of level 1 safeguarding knowledge and understanding including;
  • putting children and young people at the centre of safeguarding
  • key principles of safeguarding children and where they come from
  • categories, signs, and indicators of abuse including contextual safeguarding
  • specific safeguarding topics
  • online safety
  • child-on-child abuse
  • extremism and radicalisation
  • special needs and vulnerabilities
  • equality, fairness, and kindness to all
  • mental health and emotional wellbeing
  • managing difficult conversations
  • what to do if you are worried a child is being abused
  • understanding when you may be vulnerable
• Recruiting and managing staff and volunteers safely: rules for what is involved, and what you should do when something isn’t right
• Right safeguarding policies, right content, right procedures, reviewed at the right time
• Discharging your wider duty of care

Learning outcomes:

• Delegates have an opportunity to update and refresh level 1 safeguarding knowledge and understanding in an interactive seminar that allows for discussion and debate
• Delegates will increase their knowledge and understanding of safer organisations and positions of trust
• Delegates will explore best practice in safer recruitment and management of volunteers and staff and will be able to develop policy and procedure for recruitment and dealing with allegations and low-level concerns about volunteer or staff behaviour with children
• Delegates will review which safeguarding policies should be in place, using a range of professional safeguarding codes from sporting, charity commission and faith-based safeguarding guidance and identify the elements of key policies and recommended review cycle
• Delegates will make links between level 1 safeguarding training, safer organisations, and effective governance in discharging a wider duty of care
• Delegates will have the opportunity to explore possible links with their local safeguarding partners and review the rules of information sharing for safeguarding in relation to GDPR and the Data Protection Act
• Delegates will explore key topic areas through presentation, discussion in groups, exploring critical questions about relevant case studies to support continuous professional development.

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Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding and Director, Sacpa
Claire is Director of Safeguarding at BSA Group and Director of Sacpa. Claire leads on the development of Sacpa, the provision of safeguarding advice and support to members and the development and delivery of CPD and safeguarding consultancy services across BSA Group. Claire is a safeguarding specialist with a background in education welfare, youth justice, and early help contexts which have involved a strong focus on diverse and collaborative 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. Thereafter Claire provided a range of safeguarding consultancy, locum LADO cover, pieces of safeguarding training, professional conduct, and review work on a freelance basis.