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How DBS Supports Reducing the Risk of Harm to Children Through Safer Recruitment

A practical summary of Cathy Taylor’s session at the Preventing Child Abuse and Exploitation Conference 2026, exploring how the Disclosure and Barring Service helps organisations make safer recruitment decisions and respond to safeguarding concerns.

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Implementing Disability Passports to Support Reasonable Adjustments: Turning Good Intentions into Everyday Practice

Explore key insights from Maddy Cameron’s conference session on workplace adjustment passports, reasonable adjustments, inclusive onboarding, retention, and building trust with disabled employees.

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Preventing Adverse Consequences of Eating Disorders: Why Integrated, Long-Term Care Matters

Drawing on Dr Agnes Ayton’s session from the Treating and Tackling Eating Disorders Conference 2026, this article explores why eating disorders require early intervention, integrated care, long-term monitoring and stronger prevention strategies.

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Beyond Disclosure: Identifying and Responding to Child Abuse Effectively

Suzanne Taylor’s session at the Preventing Child Abuse and Exploitation Conference explores why professionals must move beyond waiting for verbal disclosures and take earlier, child-centred action.

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Rethinking Education and Skills for Long-Term Asylum Seeker and Refugee Integration

A summary of Abdikarim Ali and Cathy Hill’s collaborative session from The Supporting Asylum Seekers and Refugees Conference 2026, exploring why education, skills, employment, and integration must be designed around people’s lives rather than separate services.

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From Crisis Support to Long-Term Change: Building Financial Resilience and Local Anti-Poverty Strategies

A summary of Penny Rimmer and Izzie Salter’s Universal Credit Conference keynote, exploring how local areas can use new policy momentum, the Crisis and Resilience Fund, and partnership working to strengthen anti-poverty action.

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Prioritising Teacher Wellbeing, Development and Workload Management

In this fireside chat from The School Improvement Conference 2026, Jonathan Ferstenberg and Tracy Goodyear explore why teacher wellbeing, professional development and workload management must be treated as connected priorities, not separate initiatives.

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Why End-of-Life Benefits Support Is Still Missing Too Many Terminally Ill People

Based on Becca Stacey’s session at the Universal Credit Conference 2026, this article explores why terminally ill people can fall into poverty, how special rules for end-of-life benefits work, and what needs to change.

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From Referral to Recovery: What Good Prevent Practice Looks Like in 2026 for Local Safeguarding Teams

Abu Ullah, Prevent Strategy Manager at Brent Council, shares what good Prevent practice looks like in 2026: risk-led decisions, stronger governance, better information sharing, online harm awareness, and joined-up support beyond referral.

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The Future of Private Renting: Security, Affordability and What Comes Next

Nye Jones, Head of Campaigns at Generation Rent, explored how the Renters' Rights Act is already reshaping the private rented sector, where progress is being made, and what still needs to change to make renting secure, affordable and fair.

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Implementing the Renters’ Rights Act 2026: What the Private Rented Sector Needs to Prepare For

A practical summary of Ben Beadle’s session from the Future of the Private Rented Sector Conference, exploring what the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 could mean for landlords, tenants and the wider private rented sector.

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Improving Health Outcomes for the Under-represented with Eating Disorders: Why Identity Must Come Before Intervention

Dr Chukwuemeka Nwuba’s session explores how eating disorder care can better serve under-represented communities by recognising identity, culture, economic pressures and lived experience before treatment begins.

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