Sacpa – Safeguarding Practice: working with international stakeholders

• Date: May 18, 2023
• Time: 10:00 – 11:00
• Cost: Sacpa Full Member – £60, Non-member – £120
• Audience: This interactive seminar is for all safeguarding leads and practitioners working in international contexts where stakeholder engagement with safeguarding practice is a priority.
• Platform: Zoom (online) – Webinar

Navigating safeguarding systems, understanding cultural, linguistic, and systemic diversity are key areas of challenge for practitioners working with multiple stakeholders and location settings.

This webinar introduces the complexities of working with multiple stakeholders across international contexts within safeguarding practice.

Our speaker illustrates the successes and lessons for development in international safeguarding practice gained from ground breaking safeguarding work in bringing the Commonwealth Sport Movement together to share safeguarding best practice.

Delegates will have the opportunity to consider what working with multiple international stakeholders means in practice and consider what can be adapted to their safeguarding contexts from key learnings and illustrative examples highlighted in this webinar.

Training topics will include: 

• Challenges, successes and learnings from Commonwealth Sport Movement together to keep all children safe
• Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games creating a range of firsts: unique frameworks developed with a diverse range of stakeholders
• Reflecting on the importance of perspectives in working with global safeguarding stakeholders, adapting approaches to different contexts, and areas of development for future practice.

Learning outcomes:

Delegates will:

• Have the opportunity to consider what working with multiple international stakeholders means in practice
• Consider what underpins dilemmas and perspectives of stakeholders where safeguarding systems are `under-developed’ and expressed differently
• Consider which framework developments, policy and practice can be adapted to their safeguarding contexts from key learnings and illustrative examples highlighted in this webinar.

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Speaker: 

Claudia Villa-Hughes, Head of Safeguarding, Commonwealth Games Federation 

Claudia has a depth of experience working in National and International Organisations. An expert in the field of Safeguarding, Human Rights, Migration and Exploitation (with specialist knowledge and experiences of child criminal and sexual exploitation, serious youth violence, refugees, asylum seekers and human trafficking). Claudia has a proven track record of delivering operational successes and innovative projects, leading teams through change and working in highly demanding and politicised environments with multiple international stakeholders.