Lead sponsor
Programme
Thursday
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Registration, exhibition and refreshments
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Welcome and housekeeping
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Contextual safeguarding: Reimagining safety through context, collaboration, and centring young people
• Gain a clear understanding of the Contextual Safeguarding approach and its core principles.
• Work in collaboration with young people and amplify student voice.
• Recognise the value of friendship groups and how to support them as a whole.
• Work in collaboration with young people and amplify student voice.
• Recognise the value of friendship groups and how to support them as a whole.
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Keynote 2
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Critical safeguarding update: KCSIE 2026
Receive your critical annual safeguarding update with a practical overview of the latest legal changes and policy developments.
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Gender guidance
Unpick the new statutory guidance in KCSIE 2026 on how schools should sensitively and safely support children who are questioning their gender.
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Morning refreshments, networking and exhibition
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Workshop choices one
1A Identifying safeguarding vulnerability through attendance patterns
1B Safeguarding pupils with autism
1C Support students affected by domestic abuse
1D Early warning signs of digital safeguarding risk - turning data into action before a crisis emerges
• Explore emerging digital safeguarding risks, including AI, online grooming, radicalisation and self-harm.
• Learn how to use data insights proactively to strengthen interventions, training and online safety education.
• Build a whole-school digital safeguarding strategy that engages staff, governors, parents and students.
• Learn how to use data insights proactively to strengthen interventions, training and online safety education.
• Build a whole-school digital safeguarding strategy that engages staff, governors, parents and students.
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Lunch, networking and exhibition
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Online safeguarding update
Stay informed in the ever-changing online safeguarding landscape with a clear, practical overview of the latest guidance and best practice.
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Safeguarding with confidence: an expert panel on key concerns
Bring your questions and gain invaluable insights from our expert panel.
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Workshop choices two
2A Working effectively with hard-to-reach families
Gain practical strategies to build trust, identify and address the root barriers to engagement, and maintain effective, relationship-based communication. Explore how strong partnerships with families can improve safeguarding practice and lead to better outcomes for vulnerable children.
2B AI deepfakes and associated risk
2C Get court ready
Deepen your understanding of legal requirements and court record procedures. Strengthen your professional confidence in applying best practice.
2D Self-harm
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Afternoon refreshments, networking and exhibition
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Workshop choices three
3A Affluent Neglect
• Recognise the hidden signs of affluent neglect.
• Strengthen professional curiosity and challenge assumptions.
• Use evidence and observation to inform safeguarding decisions.
• Apply clear processes for recording and escalating concerns.
• Strengthen professional curiosity and challenge assumptions.
• Use evidence and observation to inform safeguarding decisions.
• Apply clear processes for recording and escalating concerns.
3B Youth violence and gang culture
• Understanding the landscape and context of serious youth violence within our cities and how this affects all schools.
• Drivers and risk factors for young people and communities.
• Safeguarding and prevention for our young people.
• Drivers and risk factors for young people and communities.
• Safeguarding and prevention for our young people.
3C Vulnerable children and child’s voice
• Identify vulnerable children by recognising key groups, patterns, and emerging trends.
• Explore effective approaches to capturing and amplifying the child's voice.
• Support vulnerable children by removing barriers, engaging hard-to-reach families, and strengthening safeguarding practice.
• Apply practical safeguarding strategies and coordinate effective, multi-agency support.
• Explore effective approaches to capturing and amplifying the child's voice.
• Support vulnerable children by removing barriers, engaging hard-to-reach families, and strengthening safeguarding practice.
• Apply practical safeguarding strategies and coordinate effective, multi-agency support.
3D Safeguarding in the manosphere
• Explore the online ‘Manosphere’ and why their messages resonate with boys.
• How misogyny intersects with other safeguarding risks.
• How we can effectively engage young men in these conversations with compassion and understanding.
• How misogyny intersects with other safeguarding risks.
• How we can effectively engage young men in these conversations with compassion and understanding.