Safeguarding Leadership: Strategic Approaches for Designated Safeguarding Leads
How to protect and support learners in a rapidly changing landscape.
Overview
Safeguarding in Further Education is facing unprecedented pressures, from rising mental‑health concerns to increasingly complex multi‑agency thresholds and stretched local services. DSLs are being asked to lead strategically in an environment where risks are evolving faster than systems can adapt.
This webinar is timely because it equips leaders with the strategic clarity, influence, and system‑level thinking needed to navigate these challenges with confidence. Strengthening safeguarding leadership now is essential to ensuring that FE learners remain protected, supported, and heard in a rapidly changing landscape.
Objectives
This webinar will help delegates to:
- Analyse the strategic responsibilities of safeguarding leadership within FE settings, including how to align safeguarding priorities with institutional risk management and governance structures.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of current safeguarding systems and processes, identifying gaps, pressures, and opportunities for improvement using data‑informed approaches.
- Strengthen multi‑agency collaboration and escalation pathways, understanding how to influence external partners and advocate for learners in complex safeguarding scenarios.
- Apply strategic decision‑making principles to real safeguarding challenges, enhancing confidence in leading teams, shaping culture, and ensuring compliance with statutory guidance such as Keeping Children Safe in Education.
Who should attend?
This webinar is designed to support all providers of post 16 education and training provision including:
- Those with Designated Safeguarding Lead responsibilities
- Those with Leadership responsibilities
- Those with Governance / Trustee roles
Facilitator
Carly Spicer, Safeguarding Consultant, ECP Safeguarding
Carly aims to empower practitioners to feel confident in their application of knowledge and expertise, to enable them to consistently provide high quality care to those they support and safeguard.
Carly is passionate about creating a dynamic and safe learning space, to stretch knowledge and challenge conventions in an innovative and dynamic way.
Connecting with people through a person-centred approach to learning, Carly hopes to empower others to provide effective, consistent care to those they work with in practice.
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Fees
Member Rate £69.00 + VAT
Non Member Rate £119.00 + VAT
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If you register but are unable to attend, we will send you a copy of the recording after the webinar has taken place.
Safeguarding Leadership: Strategic Approaches for Designated Safeguarding Leads
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