SaFest 2026 – Weeklong programme Day 1
DAY 1 – Monday 9th February 2026
09:00 Welcome to SaFest 2025 – Nick, Tina, Jackie and Anna (The SaFest Team)
09:20 Welcome from Becky Hopkins, Deputy Director, Head of Children’s Social Care
09:30 EMPTY SLOT
10:30 SaFest on the sofa | Parental Minds – Sarah-Lou Glover
11:30 Break
11:45 Devon Families and Domestic Abuse – Hannah Ashford, Chief Executive Officer of North Devon Against
Domestic Abuse (NDADA)
12:30 Lunch break
13:00 A place of healing and hope for children – Dr Libby Sevink
(collaboration with Stop It Now South West campaign – register and dial into a different link)
14:00 Using Socia Pedagogy In Children’s Homes In The UK- inspired by Western European Practices –
Emmanuel Akpan-Inwang, Lighthouse Pedagogy Trust
15:00 Break
15:45 Safeguarding through a Trauma-Informed Lens – Amber Canham, NHS Trauma Informed Project Lead
Practitioner (synopsis & bio missing)
16:45 SaFest on the sofa | Wrap up the day