Thursday 10th September 2026
Peter Reder, Sylvia Duncan and Moira Gray first published ‘Beyond Blame: Child Abuse Tragedies Revisited' in 1993.
This will be discussed, looking at a few cases and consider the language from the 1990’s and discussion its relevance today as we approach the 2030’s!
Participants will be able to translate the historical language and reflect on the learning published by the national panel and context of 2026 Working Together, Chapter 5: Learning from serious child safeguarding incidents (March 2026. UK Government).
This session will consider how we learn from serious child safeguarding incidents.
All members and non-members will be very welcome
| Ticket Type | Price | Cart |
|---|---|---|
| PLR SIG: Revisiting Beyond Blame - Member | £0.00 | |
| PLR SIG: Revisiting Beyond Blame - Standard | £15.00 |
Adrian is a Trustee of the AoCPP and Chair of the Practice Learning SIG Chair. Adrian qualified as a Registered General Nurse (1987), Cardiothoracic Nurse (1989) and Registered Health Visitor (1992) and has worked both in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) and East Warwickshire. He has worked in the Safeguarding arena, initially as a Child Protection Nurse Specialist /Named Nurse for Child Protection and from 2004 -2020 as a Consultant/Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children (incorporating Adult Safeguarding into role from 2011). Adrian managed the Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and hosted Safeguarding Team (working across LLR). As part of role worked with local safeguarding and has chaired a number of inter-agency subgroups, contributed and authored Serious Case Reviews, Adult Learning Reviews and a Domestic Homicide Review Co-Chaired the LLR Channel Panel for 6 years and worked with partners as a CCG prevent lead.
He is Honorary Principal Lecturer at De Montfort University (1999- 2015) School of Nursing and Midwifery. In April 2020 took on a new role and is currently Safeguarding Professional Lead for NHS England. The Midlands NHSE/I safeguarding team covers both East and West Midlands. Adrian is also a Parent Governor of a local school in Leicester.
Wendy Thorogood is a retired Designated Nurse Consultant for children with 40 years’ service 25 spend working within safeguarding a senior level, locally and at national level . She trained at St Guy's hospital in London, specialising in child and adult nursing intensive care and cardiac and renal transplants.
Currently working independently offer supervision, training, a scrutineer with Aidhour.
Wendy delivered the national leadership program for safeguarding for the Department of Health and worked directly with the NHS Confederation in relation to current changes, including: providing assurance that current and future providers of services are compliant in relation to safeguarding national and local standards; working with Lead Commissioners and the performance team to develop agreed key performance indicators and safety metrics for providers; and identifying and taking appropriate action on key risks and issues across commissioned services that may affect safeguarding of children and young people.
Wendy has also spent time working in a maternity unit in South Africa in a maternity unit and a Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) in Kent. She has also worked with drug users to improve maternal care - a project that still runs today.
My membership is something I value as I work in academia, my knowledge and expertise is enhanced by the AoCPP community itself and the Child Abuse Review journal. I enjoy and receive great benefit from the opportunity to attend conference events and Congress to "tap into" cutting edge research and evidence of best practice nationally and internationally, all of which benefit the students on my teaching programmes and my own research and publications
