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How can ethical AI support efforts to safeguard our children?

  • Gavin Day
  • 18 March 2024
  • Posted in: Healthcare, Education, Planning & Development, Management & Leadership

How can ethical AI support efforts to safeguard our children?

Present safeguarding arrangements are largely manually driven, reactive and subjective. The result – Child Safeguarding failures: 40% are related to data silos, 41% related poor risk assessment (MacAlister, Independent Review of Children's Social Care 2022). Over the past five years a ground breaking ethical AI solution, CESIUM, has been co-designed and adopted by Lincolnshire Police. A validation of the solution in 2022 identified 1…

  • safeguarding
  • safeguarding children
  • safety
  • children

UMHAN

  • Sam Gamblin
  • 26 July 2023
  • Posted in: Healthcare, Management & Leadership, Education

UMHAN are celebrating our 20th year in student mental health this year. Set up as a small networking organisation for Mental Health Advisers, we now have around 600 members in many different roles across the education sector. UMHAN was a key part in a series of important firsts in Higher Education, including the emphasis on practical and whole-institution approaches to mental health and illness, the development of mental health-specific services in Higher Education, facilitating awareness-raisin…

  • student choice
  • student satisfaction
  • students

A Brief Introduction to Safeguarding Adults in Sport

  • Emma Gibson
  • 25 August 2022
  • Posted in: Healthcare

The Ann Craft Trust is a national charity dedicated to safeguarding adults at risk. Through pioneering training and practice reviews, and through contributing to world-leading research, we support organisations to safeguard adults at risk and minimise the risk of harm.

In November 2015, Sport England funded The Ann Craft Trust to create a dedicated Safeguarding Adults in Sport post. But The Trust had been working to raise awareness of the issue for many years before this.

In 2008, the Safeguar…

  • safeguarding
  • A New Strategy for Sport
  • sport governance