SaFest 2026 – Weeklong programme Day 3
DAY 3 – Wednesday 11th February 2026
09:00 Welcome to SaFest 2025 – Nick, Tina, Jackie and Anna (The SaFest Team)
09:15 Opening address – speaker to be confirmed
09:30 Staying Safe in a Digital World: Helping Children Navigate Online Life – Amit Kalley, Founder, For working
Parents
10:30 Sex is kind of broken now – Harriet Waldegrave, Childrens Commissioner
11:30 Break
11:45 Personal, relational and societal implications of normalised pornography use – Gemma Kelly, Senior policy
Consultant
12:30 SaFest on the Sofa | Missing Young People- partnership responses to safeguarding children who go missing
from home or care – Steve Parsons & Al Thomas (Devon & Cornwall Police missing persons Team) Jen
Harris Nelson / Nick Meller (Links Team)
13:00 Lunch break
13:30 Thriving not Surviving: An Educators Role in Early Help – Lewis Webb, Team Lead, Inclusion and Learning
(Exeter/East) – confirmed but need to check again in the new year – Lauren emailed 21.1
14:30 SaFest on the Sofa | A conversation with Penny Goldsby-West and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking
Children (UASC) students from the Virtual School
15:30 Break
15:45 Child Neglect and links to CSA and Harmful Sexual Behaviour (synopsis and bio missing) Jane Wiffin, Child
Safeguarding Practice Review (CSPR) author and consultant
16:45 Wrap up of the day and what’s to come!