Speaker & Judge
Sarah is an experienced and dynamic conference chair, keynote, panel member and moderator across multi-disciplinary professional and academic settings, and has worked across the globe, in-person and virtually.
Prior appearances include: the European Social Network Annual Conferences and Awards, Social Care Forum - organised by the Department of Community Development Abu Dhabi, Community Care Live (UK), Lund Municipality (Sweden), Essex County Council (UK), Association of Child Protection Professionals (UK), Laing Buisson Events (UK), Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre (UK).
Keynote Topics
Safeguarding children's co-design and quality standards.
Co-designing for safety and technology.
Creating safeguarding digital pathways.
Children's digital access to child protection and social work.
Mobile phone applications: Safeguarding or child abuse reporting.
Social work education and training: digital skills training.
Social work digital practices.
Digital early help and interventions.
Use of digital media methods for communications with child children and young people.
Digital Co-design for safeguarding rooted in children’s lived experience.
User-centred design: participatory design in agile development of safeguarding programmes.
Children’s pathway within case management systems.
Mobilising the social care sector.
Applying the ‘voice of the child’: using technology as the enabler.
Technology development by children for children - within the context of safeguarding, early intervention, and child abuse reporting.
Digital Safeguarding policy developments.
Insights from research to practice.
Sarah is also an Associate Lecturer at the University of Chichester and associated with Lancaster University, University of Lancashire.
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Consultancy
Sarah’s expertise as a consultant is wide-ranging in environments where children's social care meets technology. She specialises in advising on digital safeguarding strategies, and technical reporting pathways across organisational departments and in multi-agency settings.
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Research
Sarah's research focus is on co-producing new ways of working within child protection, and to challenge the current technical frameworks to ultimately improve outcomes for children and young people. This work has supported developments in UK and International child protection relating to managing risk and safeguarding.
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Social Care Tech Workshops
Sarah is a senior and seasoned facilitator, developing and delivering conferences, workshops, and development days tailored to the needs of stakeholders across the digital safeguarding and the social care sector.
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Safeguarding Supervision
Sarah has over two decades of experience working across multi-disciplinary sectors, all the while placing the lived experience and agency of children and adults at risk at the centre of safeguarding.
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