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Webinar: the rights of children and young people
18th March 2021 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Worldwide, children and young people have rights. In 1989 the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child set out the human rights of every person under 18. The Convention applies to every child, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities and whatever their family background or public beliefs/feelings. This was set out to ensure that all children had the opportunity to develop and reach their full potential.
Jointly organised with Farrer & Co, this webinar will consider the rights of children and young people today, looking in detail at the UK but also considering the global picture, and how these rights impact our practices and actions in relation to safeguarding and child protection.
Audience:
This webinar is suitable for anyone working with young people, and especially those working to promote physical and emotional development of children with due consideration to safeguarding, child protection and best practice guidance.
Training aims:
- What are the rights of children and young people?
- What are the particular laws and rights for children and young people in the UK?
- How do these impact working with children and young people?
- Best practice recommendations for being aware of the rights of children and young people, and working safely and in adherence to these.
- Member rate: £60
- Non-member rate: £120*
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Speaker: Katie Fudakowski, Partner, Farrer & Co
Katie is a practising barrister with a decade of litigation experience in employment and safeguarding law built up while a tenant of Old Square Chambers. Katie advises her school and education business clients on all issues involving pupils, parents and staff. On the employment side, Katie has successfully represented schools facing serious allegations of whistleblowing detriment and discrimination as well as ordinary unfair or constructive dismissal claims. She can advise clients on how to stay out of the employment tribunal through adopting rigorous and fair grievance, capability and disciplinary procedures. In pure education law, Katie has expertise in relation to exclusions and special educational needs and also covers the contractual side of education, advising on parental complaints and breach of contract claims. Katie has considerable expertise in safeguarding crisis management, whether involving non recent allegations or live cases, Katie guides her clients through the internal investigation and disciplinary proceedings and the regulatory reporting to the statutory agencies, the charity commission, the Disclosure and Barring Service and the Teaching Regulatory Authority.
Co-presenter: Sophia Coles, Associate, Farrer & Co
Sophia is an associate working in the firm’s employment team and is a member of the firm’s Safeguarding Unit. She specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment matters, advising both employees and employers. She also advises educational institutions, sports bodies and charities on safeguarding matters, which commonly involve liaison with statutory agencies and regulators.
Sophia qualified into the Employment team in September 2018.
She assists clients with all aspects of employment litigation, and advises in relation to workplace investigations, including disciplinary, grievance and whistleblowing procedures. Sophia provides general employment advice around contracts, policy reviews and settlement agreements, and advises both employers and individuals on issues relating to exits and recruitment.
Sophia advises a range of clients including schools (including specialist schools), universities, charities, sports organisations, business and individuals. Sophia also has experience advising clients participating in public inquiries.
Before joining Farrer & Co, Sophia studied law at the University of Oxford and completed an LLM at the London School of Economics. Since graduating, Sophia has interned at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania, and for the anti-corruption organisation Transparency International at their head office in Berlin. After her internship she continued to work there for almost two years. Shortly before joining Farrers, Sophia spent three months working pro-bono for a team of criminal defence lawyers in Louisiana, representing indigent defendants facing the death penalty.
