Annual Scientific Meeting 2025
Safeguarding children and young people with special needs and disabilities: a multi-faceted approach
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.
BACD ASM 2025 Programme
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