Everyone’s Responsibility: Safeguarding led by Sue Soan

Everyone’s Responsibility: Focus on Safeguarding

Building and maintaining staff resilience, wellbeing, and confidence led by Dr Sue Soan

This sessions is for Heads, senior leadership teams, designated safeguarding leads, staff wellbeing leads.

Every September safeguarding policies are revised to reflect the latest DfE guidance, and training is undertaken to revisit and update school processes and staff roles and responsibilities. The additional impact of the pandemic on families, pupils and students’ wellbeing is expected to be seen and felt in schools for a number of years and much is already in place to support these needs.  This session however aims to help you explore whether your institution’s safeguarding policy and processes also considers staff resilience, wellbeing, and confidence as they attempt to support the young people and colleagues through this academic year.  Particular focus will be given to:

• the monitoring of safeguarding processes, outcomes, and impact
• staff safeguarding issues including staff / student relationships
• staff supervision

Profile summary

Dr Sue Soan is a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University. Sue is also a PhD,Ed.D and MA supervisor.

Sue has worked on a number of DfE and DoH projects and has published regularly since 2003 on many aspects of additional educational needs and joint professional working at the local, national and international level.  Sue’s PhD Thesis (2013) is entitled ‘An exploration through a small number of case studies of the education provision for Looked After Children who have experienced early life abuse or neglect’.  She is an external examiner for universities, provides supervision for senior leaders in schools and also undertakes consultancy and validation work.  Sue is also the facilitator of the research group ACT (Action for Collaborative Transformation) which is working to improve collaborative practice across the statutory professions.

Additionally, Sue has been the Guest Editor for the journal JORSEN (2017) and is an Editorial Member of the new journal PRACTICE.  

Prior to joining the university in 2003 Sue taught in nursery settings, primary and secondary mainstream, and special schools for over 25 years, working as a classroom teacher, a subject coordinator (mathematics) and for over a decade as a Senior Leader, including Head of Secondary and special educational needs coordinator (SENCO). 

Her areas of expertise and research interest are Looked After Children, motor and coordination development, autism, SENCO and able and talented education.