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We are pleased to announce this National Safeguarding Adolescents and Young Adults Conference which this year will focus on improving safeguarding practice: delivering a strengths based approach, trauma informed safeguarding, contextual safeguarding and complex safeguarding.
Through national expert sessions and practical case studies the conference aims to bring together safeguarding leads working with adolescents and young people to understand current issues and the national context, address risks faced by vulnerable adolescents and to debate and discuss key issues and areas you are facing in practice in supporting adolescents and young adults.
There will be a focus through the day on understanding the context in which young people and adolescents live their lives. The conference will address the need for specific services and support tailored age appropriately to adolescents and young people who are at risk of falling in the gap between child and adult services. Additionally, the day will also focus on developing an action plan for contextual safeguarding in working with adolescents, addressing the context in which young people and adolescents live their lives.
“We know that too many young people across the country face gaps in support as they make the journey into adulthood, despite the best efforts of professionals, and that each young person’s experience of this journey is unique. A young person may face harm or adversity for a number of complex reasons, and their vulnerability has little to do with their 18th birthday. Transitional Safeguarding is a concept that aims to create a more fluid and effective response for young people, by proactively responding to their needs so they do not face a ‘cliff-edge’ in support.”
Beverley Tarka Director of Adults, Health and Communities Haringey Council, 2024
“By supporting practitioners and managers to understand adolescents’ and young adults’ cognitive and social development and lived experience – in particular, how trauma affects decision-making – a transitional safeguarding approach can help professionals to work alongside each young person to support their decisions and their understanding of risk in a way that balances their rights and need for protection.”
Transitional Safeguarding: A Knowledge Briefing for Health Professionals, Research In Practice, 2024
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to improve adolescent and young adult safeguarding practice
Understand the national context of your safeguarding practice
Reflect on the lived experience
Understand how you can develop and embed a strengths based approach
Assess various Safeguarding Models
Understand adolescent development and risk
Explore the context in which young adults and adolescents live their lives
Develop your skills in transitional safeguarding, contextual safeguarding, trauma informed safeguarding and complex safeguarding and in which situations they apply
Improve the transition from child to adult safeguarding: supporting support people across the life course
Develop a Contextual Safeguarding action plan: understanding the wider contexts of adolescent lives outside the family
Ensure the risks faced by vulnerable adolescents are addressed
Learn from multi-agency approaches to support child and adult victims of sexual exploitation
Reflect on the development of a Complex Safeguarding Hub to improve the response to criminal activity, or behaviour associated to criminality, involving vulnerable children/young people, where there is exploitation and/or a clear or implied safeguarding concern
Risk assessment and interventions in adolescent safeguarding regarding harmful sexual behaviour
Update your knowledge on current issues and identification of risk with regard to Gangs, Criminal Exploitation and Serious Youth Violence
Improve partnership with Police
Legal update – including information sharing and the new Liberty Protection Safeguards which will replace DoLS and now apply to 16-17 year olds
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
