This masterclass will enable DSLs to fully understand changes and emerging areas of risk with relation to the two fastest growing areas of concern presenting for DSLs in Schools and colleges: Extra-familial harms (including Child Criminal Exploitation, CSE and County Lines), and growing numbers of mental health concerns in children and young people.
The masterclass will ensure DSLs are fully up to date with developments in each of these as well as understanding emerging areas of risk and the need to ensure an effective contextual safeguarding response to a range of extra familial harms. We will look at the evidence, trends and key statistics, and will explore the different ways in which schools can effectively understand and manage the risks, and how DSLs can prepare for emerging challenges in core areas, that also include the fastest growing category of safeguarding concern; mental health issues.
We will provide the key information DSLs, and school & college leaders and governors, need to know to ensure they are fully up to date with how to respond to these concerns appropriately, as part of an effective whole school/college approach.
KEY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This masterclass will enable you to:
- To understand the importance of identifying the specific contextual risks for your individual setting
- To understand key developments in relation to a range of extra-familial harms including CCE, CSE & County Lines
- To understand what a contextual safeguarding approach is, and how it applies to your setting with your pupils and students
- To understand the fastest growing area of concern; mental health issues in Children and Young People, and how this specifically relates to safeguarding.
- To understanding the importance of DSLs working closely with the Designated Senior Mental Health Leads and Mental Health Support Teams to support the whole school approaches to both Mental Health and Safeguarding and to ensure vulnerable children and young people are safeguarding effectively.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
DSL’s, Deputy DSL’s, Headteachers, Deputy
FACILITATOR
Oliver Welsby is a safeguarding and mental health consultant and trainer, with extensive experience in pastoral leadership as both a DSL and a Senior Mental Health Lead. He leads Brightcore Consultancy; a team of consultants who have a particular focus on enhancing safeguarding and mental health provision in education settings. They work with over 750 schools, colleges, and trusts, along with several Local Authorities nationwide, to enhance all aspects of their provision in these fields. He is both an Advanced Safeguarding Trainer and Senior Mental Health Lead Trainer, (training DSLs and DSMHLs for a number of different Local Authorities, MATs, and individual settings, across all sectors), and regularly writes and delivers highly acclaimed, bespoke training programmes to support settings in these areas. In addition, Oliver works as a Local Authority Designated Safeguarding Lead Champion, an Accredited Safer Recruitment Trainer and as a Safeguarding Supervisor. Oliver regularly speaks at, and chairs, sector conferences on safeguarding and leading effective mental health provision. Student and staff wellbeing have always been at the heart of Oliver’s approach to education. He is known for his dynamic, authentic and non-judgemental approach to all aspects of his delivery.
