Online Meeting: 15th October, 2:30 – 4pm
Rescheduled in-person meeting: 4th December, 2:00 – 4:00pm. Pelican House Events Space, 144 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 5QJ
What do we do when safeguarding makes people less safe? What does safety really mean for young people?
NSUN and Act Build Change recently published The Shape of Safety: a guide to reimagining safety and safeguarding alongside young people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma. You can find the guide here.
Created in collaboration with user-led young peoples’ organisations Revoke and Voice Collective, this project is the result of a series of workshops centering young people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma, who have been failed and disempowered by safeguarding systems. Taking a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive approach, the guide shares and celebrates methods of fostering cultures of safety and care for young people that have been effective. The guide centres lived experience and young peoples’ agency in offering principles for better practice, reflective questions and a practitioner’s checklist to support organisational change.
You’re invited to join NSUN, Act Build Change, Revoke and Voice Collective to hear about what we learned during this project, and to discuss how to take radical safeguarding approaches within your own work.
We’re hosting two gatherings, one online and one in person, so you can join wherever you’re based – there’s no need to come to both (unless you’d like to). You’re welcome to join us for as long as you can, and step out if need be.
Online event information & registration (15/10)
This event has now taken place and registration is closed.
NSUN’s Conduct Agreement
We want virtual NSUN spaces to be safe, welcoming, and inclusive. Harassment, hate speech, and inappropriate behaviour of any kind, verbal or in the chat/Q&A, will not be tolerated.
We reserve the right to immediately remove any attendee we consider to be in breach of this conduct agreement. This includes anyone making racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory, offensive, or hateful remarks.
Removed participants will not be able to re-join the session, or, if applicable, join any of the rest of the sessions in a day or series of events. In order to avoid the derailing of sessions we will not enter into conversations around why conduct was deemed inappropriate in the sessions themselves.
Late admittance
Please note that to avoid disruption or distraction, we will be unable to admit latecomers (anyone who arrives ten minutes after the event’s start time).
Access
You can find an Easy Read Guide to joining Zoom meetings here.
If you need help with costs to be able to access this event, we may be able to make a contribution – please get in touch with us at info@nsun.org.uk.
Zoom closed captions will be available to turn on during the meeting.
We will be asking that attendees keep themselves on mute while others are talking to avoid audio distractions.
Please let us know of any access requirements in your sign up form and we will try to accommodate them as best as we can.
Data
Information provided during your registration to this event is collected in order to process your registration application and to communicate with you about details and joining links for this event. We will not use your data for any other purposes or pass it onto any third parties. You can find our privacy policy here.
In-person event information & registration (04/12)
NSUN’s Conduct Agreement
We want NSUN spaces to be safe, welcoming, and inclusive. Harassment, hate speech, and inappropriate behaviour of any kind will not be tolerated.
We reserve the right to ask any attendee we consider to be in breach of this conduct agreement to leave the space. This includes anyone making racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory, offensive, or hateful remarks.
Removed participants will not be able to re-join the session, or, if applicable, join any of the rest of the sessions in a day or series of events. In order to avoid the derailing of sessions we will not enter into conversations around why conduct was deemed inappropriate in the sessions themselves.
Access
This event will be taking place in a wheelchair accessible space. There is a gender neutral bathroom which is also wheelchair accessible and located close to the main event space.
About NSUN
This meeting is free to attend. NSUN is a charity and membership organisation of people and grassroots groups with lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma and distress, working towards the redistribution of power and resource in mental health.