Annual Scientific Meeting 2025

Confirmed speakers as follows:

• Polani Lecture 2025: The CASPAR Review for young people with disabilities and complex needs in residential care: implications for practice Amanda Allard, Director Council for Disabled Children

• FASD - challenges of a complex neurodevelopmental condition and it's interface with safeguarding Dr Jamie Carter, Consultant Paediatrician, Designated Doctor for Safeguarding & Designated Paediatrician for Child Deaths, Sussex

• Lived Experiences of FASD Jan and Rossi

• Mental Capacity Assessment and its implementation for safeguarding children and young people with disabilities Stephen Down, MCA & LPS Lead, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust 

• Recognition of sexual abuse in children with disabilities - case management to court report writing Dr Kim Barett, Consultant Paediatrician and lead for NE Forensics

• Learning from serious case reviews Sarah Goff

• Oral Presentations selected from abstract submission

Abstract submission is open - deadline 26 February 2025