Inclusive Practitioner Training: Risk, Safeguarding and Music Practice

Safeguarding is something that every person working with vulnerable people should know about. People often attend training, but it doesn’t always address specific common scenarios practitioners can experience in music-making sessions. We look to unpack some of these scenarios so that facilitators can feel confident to deliver sessions with confidence.

Risk assessments can seem quite dry but if set up correctly, Facilitators/music tutors/community musicians or project leads can set up personal support plans to enable vulnerable people to access sessions that may otherwise have been excluded from, whilst supporting the people delivering the sessions at the same time.

This session will look at:

• Relevant examples of safeguarding situations and how to respond.
• Navigating grey areas around safeguarding
• Case studies
• Putting personal support plans in place to support young people, holding wellbeing and safety for all as central.
• Maintaining professional boundaries when working with vulnerable people and considerations around neurodivergence and attachment.
• Our responsibilities as adults working with vulnerable people.
• You will also get the opportunity to Network with other teachers, practitioners, music leaders and community musicians from across the sector.

Takeaways:

• New space and group checklists
• Support plan templates and how to implement them
• A certificate of attendance