Sacpa webinar – Early warnings for early help

• Date: November 29, 2022
• Time: 14:00 – 15:00
• Cost: Sacpa Member – £60, Additional Sacpa Member – £20, Non-member – £120
• Platform: Zoom (online)

Audience:

• Trustees, Governors and Leaders including heads of service and Headteachers responsible for oversight of safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children and young people
• Designated and deputy designated safeguarding leads
• Attendance Officers, Children Missing Education Officers
• Special Needs Co-ordinators
• Mental Health Leads
• Designated leads for Looked After Children
• Early Help workers in all sectors
• Practitioners working with vulnerable children and young people who may be subject of exploitation
• Alternative education providers and staff
• Pastoral support staff and learning mentors

Course outline

Keeping Children Safe in Education 22 details a long and non-exhaustive list of children and young people who may need early help. This list of life circumstances and characteristics is helpful, but what systems are in place in organisations to add value to what we know about the characteristics of vulnerability?

This webinar explores the links between the management of behaviour and attendance and safeguarding for early help. It will support pastoral support, safeguarding leads, SENCO’s, mental health leads and other support staff to develop and enhance systems in place designed to promote and maintain wellbeing, identify and provide early help at the earliest opportunity.

Training topics will include:

• Why attendance and behaviour are such important early warning systems
• Analysis of data to inform identification of children in need of early help
• The particular vulnerabilities of children with SEN/D
• The tension between support and sanction
• Links to exploitation

This webinar is suitable for a wide range of leaders and practitioners involved in promoting the welfare of children or working with partner agencies and schools with excluded, and self-excluding children who are vulnerable to exploitation.

Learning outcomes:

• Review the power of attendance and behaviour data as early warning signs that not all is well
• Refresh their knowledge of the particular vulnerabilities of children with SEN/D and learning difficulties/diversities
• Explore the often polarised response positions of support and sanction – can they co-exist?
• Ground early help identification practice in the knowledge of known vulnerabilities to exploitation and facilitating the exploitation of others.

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Speaker: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group 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 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.