This half-day online course will provide you with a thorough overview of your charitable safeguarding duty. Over the course of the morning, you will explore how to set an effective safeguarding culture, how the Commission assesses safeguarding compliance and what you can learn from recent movements such as me too, BLM and Everyone's Invited.
This course will take place online via Zoom.
A £40 discount is available to Governance & Leadership subscribers.
Speakers
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Tabitha Cave
Tabitha heads the Regulatory Compliance team at VWV. She is a commercial litigator by background and provides expert advice and counsel on regulatory issues and resulting disputes, including critical incident management, risk, PR and reputation protection and insurance.
She has a particular specialism in safeguarding and safeguarding governance and has advised many clients in the management of historic abuse cases. This work includes advice on investigations and inquiries and in particular on the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse.
She project manages teams of cross disciplinary sector specialists, focused on supporting and guiding charities through complex, sensitive, and often high profile cases.
She seeks solutions for clients that avoid protracted and costly litigation, priding herself on her straightforward and commercial approach to regulatory issues and the resolution of disputes.
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Kate Sherlock
Kate is a Solicitor the Charities team at VWV. Kate advises charities on a wide range of charity, company and trust law matters.
Kate has experience of advising charities on safeguarding governance, including preparing bespoke safeguarding policies and considering appropriate reporting structures. Kate also assists and advises charity's on general governance issues, including the duties and responsibilities of trustees as well as advising charities on reporting serious incidents to the Charity Commission.
Before starting her legal career, Kate worked for Citizens Advice Cornwall in various roles including as an area manager responsible for the provision of advice services in West Cornwall.
Programme
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9:30
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Introduction
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9:40
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Charity safeguarding duty
Reporting serious incidents
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10:30
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Break
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10:45
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Safeguarding children and adults at risk
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11:05
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The importance of an effective safeguarding culture
How can/should it be measured?
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11:35
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Break
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11:45
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Breakout rooms focused on the continual improvement of safeguarding culture
This should provide attendees with an opportunities to share their current practices and experiences with each other and consolidate key points from the training for practical application.
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12:20
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Conclusions
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12:30
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End
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Prices
Governance & Leadership subscriber - £119
Standard charity rate - £159
Corporate Governance & Leadership subscriber - £300
Corporate delegate - £400
For group bookings email [email protected]
