Course outline:

Does your organisation understand the legalities of making reasonable adjustment when safeguarding children and young people?

The emphasis on the need for awareness of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in safeguarding guidance continues to grow. It is critical to avoid unlawful discrimination and to discharge the duty to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 as well as understand evolving Government guidance on best practice in supporting children with SEND.
This webinar highlights the legal landscape relating to disability discrimination and in particular your duty to make reasonable adjustments in safeguarding.

Training topics will include:

• Review key equality legislation and safeguarding guidance
• What is disability?
• Case study application of adjustments in safeguarding: are they reasonable?

Learning outcomes:

• Increase knowledge and awareness of key equality duties in safeguarding
• Review key legislation and guidance for SEND
• Consider the application of `reasonable adjustment’ decisions using case study scenarios and what it means for their practice and decision-making.

Audience: Suitable for safeguarding, behaviour, pastoral support and SEND professionals, leaders, trustees, governors and board members with oversight of safeguarding, SEND and inclusion.

This programme is also available face-to-face or online with tailoring specific to your organisational context on a consultancy basis for large staff groups. 

For more information or to enquire about SACPA consultancy including face-to-face tailored training packages, review, audit, health check projects contact info@sacpa.org.uk to request a short scoping meeting about your needs. 

Platform: Zoom (online) – Webinar

Cost:

• SACPA Member Rate: £90
• SACPA Additional Full Member Fee: £45
• Non-member Rate: £180*

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Speaker:

Ben Collingwood

Ben specialises in advising independent schools and other charities on wide ranging areas of education law, with particular focus on reputation issues, pastoral, safeguarding, historic abuse allegations, SEN, exclusions, parent/pupil complaints, data protection, parent contracts, admissions and staff matters of all types.

He has written and spoken widely on issues facing the independent schools sector, providing comment in The Times, The Guardian, The Lawyer and Law Society’s Gazette and at the national conferences and training programmes for the various associations that support independent schools including BSA, ISBA, HMC, IAPS and AGBIS.

He lives with his wife and three children in West Sussex. He has been a devoted surfer since his childhood and he loves to spend as much of his free time as possible in the sea and walking their pointers with his family.