02/12/2025
Tabitha White
By Chris English
Join Police Oracle for a vital, multi-agency webinar exploring the key lessons from the Sara Sharif Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review. Sara Sharif tragically lost her life, highlighting systemic failures in safeguarding and the urgent need for reflective, culturally competent practice. This session provides practitioners with a safe, reflective space to understand what went wrong, why, and how similar tragedies can be prevented in the future.
Facilitated by an expert in cultural competence, intersectional safeguarding, and challenging systemic inequity, the webinar delves into crucial themes including professional curiosity, critical questioning, disguised compliance, and patterns of avoidance. Participants will also examine information-sharing gaps and systemic missed opportunities that contributed to Sara’s tragic experience.
A particular focus will be on understanding the cultural, linguistic, and gender dynamics that shape engagement with families, as well as the bias, racism, and structural barriers faced by racially minoritised and migrant families. By exploring these complex factors, the webinar aims to support practitioners in embedding culturally responsive, child-centred safeguarding into everyday practice.
Whether you work in social care, education, health, criminal justice or law enforcement, this session will enhance your ability to recognise risks, challenge assumptions, and act decisively to protect children. Learning from Sara Sharif’s case is not only a professional responsibility but a way to ensure that children’s voices are heard and their lived experiences prioritised in safeguarding practice.
Secure your place today and contribute to building a safer, more equitable system for all children.
Sign up today: https://www.policeoracle.com/event-calendar/learning-from-the-sara-sharif-review/