Safeguarding at Scale: Strengthening Assurance, Visibility and Response Across Your MAT

Safeguarding in a Multi-Academy Trust is more than a statutory requirement—it’s a trust-wide responsibility that underpins culture, governance, and risk management. Ensuring every academy is safe, supported, and compliant is complex, especially when safeguarding needs vary across communities and incidents can arise unexpectedly.

This session explores how to strengthen trust-level oversight, turn operational safeguarding into strategic insight, and spot risks early before they escalate. Join our safeguarding experts along with a trust leader as they share practical approaches, learn from real-world experience, and help you ensure safeguarding is robust, visible, and actively managed at trust level—not just on paper.

During the session we will be discussing the following:

• Strengthening trust-level safeguarding oversight 
• Shifting from operational delivery to strategic leadership
• Driving consistency and improving visibility of safeguarding risk

Let us introduce you to this week's professional speaker

Simon Hanley 

Simon Hanley brings over 20 years of education experience, including 13+ years as a Headteacher and Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL). He has led safeguarding across diverse settings, working closely with staff, families, and agencies to support pupil wellbeing. Beyond school leadership, Simon has supported schools nationally through consultancy, training, and mentoring programmes such as NPQ and EHCO. In 2025, he joined Judicium Education as a Safeguarding Consultant and has been Acting Head of Safeguarding since December 2026. In this role, he leads the strategic development and delivery of safeguarding services, alongside audits, training, and policy reviews. His advice is grounded in real school practice, and his coaching-led approach supports schools to build confident, child-centred safeguarding cultures rooted in clarity, empathy, and practical expertise.