Annual Scientific Meeting 2025

Lectures and Speakers:

• 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

• Living with FASD as a diagnosis Jan Griffin and her son Rossi, who have recently published a book of lived experience of FASD

• 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

• Safeguarding disabled children: messages from research Sarah Goff, Associate Researcher, Manchester Metropolitan University; and co-Chair, National Working Group on Safeguarding Disabled Children

• Oral Presentations selected from abstract submission

For the full programme please click on the PDF link below.

The conference will be recorded and shared with all delegates to access on demand for 6 weeks - please be aware that we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all talks will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and BACD's discretion.