Safeguarding & Child Protection Workshop: Managing Allegations

Date: 23–24 February 2027
Time: 08:00–17:00 Central European Time (CET) Convert to your time zone
Location: Virtual

Part 3 of the Managing Allegations workshop series

When an allegation against an educator moves beyond an adult conduct concern and requires a formal response, schools need a clear, careful, and trauma-informed response.

Join this workshop to learn how to manage current and historic allegations with confidence, consistency, and care.

Managing allegations of abuse is complex and sensitive. Schools need to know how to respond appropriately, protect everyone involved, and maintain trust across the community.

We’ll help you strengthen your school policies, procedures, and response processes for managing allegations against educators.

You’ll build practical knowledge and skills to contribute confidently to your school’s safeguarding and response teams and help lead a consistent, whole-school approach.

 

You can expect to:

• Understand patterns of offenders behaviour and how schools can deter and prevent abuse
• Identify and respond to current and historic allegations when concerns indicate possible harm to a child or young person
• Strengthen your school’s policies, procedures, and response processes for managing allegations against educators
• Learn how to manage, store, and report allegations of abuse appropriately
• Develop effective inquiry questions and apply a trauma-informed approach when supporting people affected by abuse
• Practice your response through realistic scenarios and an evolving case study
• Build useful connections and support networks with peers in similar roles

 

 

You'll leave feeling:

• Clearer about how to respond when an allegation meets the harm threshold
• Better prepared to manage current and historic allegations consistently and appropriately
• More confident to contribute to an inquiry process and strengthen related policies and procedures
• Ready to support victims of abuse with care, compassion, and a trauma-informed approach
• Prepared to contribute to your school community’s safeguarding culture

 

 

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About the Managing Allegations Workshop Series:
Three workshops, three priority topics

This series prepares international school communities to effectively prevent, respond to, and manage allegations of abuse by educators and other adults within a school community.

While each workshop is designed as a stand-alone learning experience, it’s beneficial for one staff member, or a team, to attend all three for a collective and united understanding of how to respond to any allegation. If that’s not possible, you can also register different members of your staff and faculty for each workshop to build skills across your school.

• Workshop 1 (19 January, virtual) starts with adult conduct concerns, previously called low level concerns. Managing an adult conduct concern is usually the first time a school is exposed to what can later become an allegation. We’ll guide you with preventative approaches, so the behaviour does not escalate further.
• Workshop 2 (4 February, in-person) focuses on communication in crisis. See information above.
• Workshop 3 (23–24 February, virtual) guides you through managing allegations against educators. You’ll learn how to manage historic and current allegations, how to craft interview questions, and, crucially, how to adopt a trauma-informed approach to supporting victims of abuse.