Dr Jon Needham PhD

National Director of Safeguarding and Wellbeing, Oasis Community Learning

Jon originally trained as a nurse specializing in adolescents with life limiting illness before moving to become an advisor to a large strategic health authority and a commissioner in a primary care trust. He worked briefly as a specialist advisor on two World Health Organization projects before becoming the lead for early help and multi-agency working in a large local authority. He became an education safeguarding advisor 16 years ago managing the support offer to 530 schools and for the past six years has worked as the National Director of Safeguarding & Mental Health for the Oasis Trust. He qualified as a PhD in Education Safeguarding at Liverpool Hope University and has recently published a book on managing sexting in education. He acts as a mentor to five young men starting out in industry ensuring that they develop to their full potential. In his spare time, he is a voluntary youth worker. When (if) he ever relaxes he is a keen fan of Korean dramas (though must use subtitles).

09:20

1 Main programme

Welcome remarks

Welcome remarks from Dr Jon Needham, National Director of Safeguarding and Wellbeing, Oasis Community Learning and Chair of CST's Safeguarding professional community.

15:55

1 Main programme

Final reflections and close

1 Workshop series two

Leading inclusive safeguarding practice

How do trust safeguarding leaders ensure that their schools' safeguarding practice is inclusive? Can we be sure that our approach is contextual and not conceptual? Are there gaps between our trust promise and our practice? And how do we know what's working? In this interactive workshop, you will be invited to discuss what inclusive safeguarding means, share your experience and consider how to test assumptions and assess the impact of your trust's approach.

09:25

1 Main programme

Welcome remarks

10:30

1 Main programme

Keynote: Do managed moves really work?

In this session, we will hear a (former) pupil perspective, as Elliot McKenzie shares his experience of a managed move in conversation with Jon Needham.

15:05

1 Main programme

Principles of an effective safeguarding audit: A trust-led approach

CST's Samira Sadeghi will introduce a project to develop practical new support for trust-led safeguarding audits in partnership with our Safeguarding professional community. She'll set out the vision for a framework and principles that can be used in trusts of all sizes to underpin developmental and supportive audits, and how community members can share ideas and experience to help shape them.

16:10

1 Main programme