Course content: This course will spotlight the unhealthy coping strategies used by those suffering from mental illness. The candidates will hear detailed personal experiences  to look at best practice, professional advice on support and strategies for assisting anyone who is going though treatment and recovery phases of their illness. We will look at how much support...

    This year’s Sacpa Annual Safeguarding Conference promises to bring a day packed with expert speakers from a range of disciplines and perspectives who aim to inform, challenge and invigorate delegates on a range of key and contemporary safeguarding topics and learning. Addressing key issues from our members, sessions will consider the current safeguarding landscape,...

Sexual harassment and sexual violence are strands of a range of behaviours described as child-on-child abuse, also described as harmful sexual behaviour. Unpicking the nature of harmful sexual behaviour is a key task to this challenging. It informs safeguarding practitioners and leaders as they make decisions about proportionate risk assessment, incident analysis, complex safety planning...

Course outline Safeguarding in the online space continues to evolve along with technology and how individuals use technology for good or harm. We watch with interest the progress of the online safety bill, seek to learn lessons from some of the tragic consequences of online harm reported in the press in the past year, and...

Course outline Safeguarding international students remains a complex and challenging area of work. This conference brings together expert speakers with specialist knowledge and experience who work with international students. It aims to inform and support colleagues managing safeguarding in international contexts and focusses on emerging themes and concerns including conflict resolution between groups of students...

Course outline: This conference brings together expert speakers with specialist knowledge in creating safer organisations.  It aims to inform and support colleagues seeking to create, develop and maintain a safer working ethos helping them to analyse and identify the elements needed, best practice examples and sources of support in this critical and overarching area of...

  Course outline: This Conference focuses on mental health from a range of perspectives and with a particular focus on safeguarding and promoting coping strategies that are healthy and reduce vulnerability to escalation of risk. SACPA and HIEDA promise to bring a day packed with expert speakers from a range of disciplines and perspectives who...

Course outline: This year’s SACPA and BSA Annual Safeguarding Conference promises to bring a day packed with expert speakers from a range of disciplines and perspectives who aim to inform, challenge, and invigorate delegates on a range of key and contemporary safeguarding topics and learning. Addressing key issues from our members, sessions will consider the...

Course outline: This conference brings together expert speakers with specialist knowledge and experience who work across the continuum of harmful sexual behaviour in children and adults who sexually harm others including children. It aims to inform and support colleagues managing cases of harmful sexual behaviour, allegations and low-level concerns which involve elements of sexual harm....

Course outline: Safeguarding in the online space continues to evolve along with technology and how individuals use technology for good or harm. Keeping up with the latest developments in technology, how they are being used (and abused) is a challenge for any safeguarding practitioner.  The safeguarding community must remain vigilant and ensure that policy, practice...

  Click here to view our conference programme Course outline: Safeguarding international students remains a complex and challenging area of work. It is important to recognise the vulnerabilities of international students studying, and indeed living, away from home. This conference brings together expert speakers with specialist knowledge and experience who work with international students.  It aims...

Course outline: This Conference focuses on mental health from a range of perspectives and with a particular focus on key practice challenges for health centres and safeguarding teams. SACPA and HIEDA promise to bring a day packed with expert speakers from a range of disciplines and perspectives who aim to inform, challenge, and invigorate on...

Course outline: This year’s SACPA and BSA Annual Safeguarding Conference promises to bring a day packed with expert speakers from a range of disciplines and perspectives who aim to inform, challenge, and invigorate delegates on a range of key and contemporary safeguarding topics and learning. Addressing key issues from our members, sessions will consider the...