ACEs-informed practice: what’s missing?

We talk a lot about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in safeguarding, health, education, policing and social care.

But most training focuses on:
✔️ definitions
✔️ checklists
✔️ scores

It rarely explores what ACEs feel like from the inside — or how children actually experience harm, neglect, grooming, and missed opportunities for protection.

And that gap matters.

This free webinar is for professionals and individuals who want to deepen their understanding of ACEs beyond theory and understand why systems so often fail to see what’s right in front of them.

What we’ll explore:

• how ACEs cluster and compound in real life
• why children don’t disclose the way systems expect
• how neglect creates vulnerability long before abuse is visible
• what safeguarding looks like from the inside out, not the outside in

The session is grounded in lived experience and draws on Through the Eyes of a Child — a survivor-led account written before ACEs became professional language, and before hindsight and theory were layered on top.

This is not a personal disclosure session.

It’s a professional learning space designed to improve practice, curiosity, and judgement.

👥 Who it’s for:
Safeguarding, health, education, policing, social care, probation, youth justice, professional trainers — and those who commission or design services.

Or anyone who wants to know more.

🕖 Date: Wednesday 28 January
🕖 Time: 7.00–8.15pm (UK)
💻 Format: Online | Free

Sign Up Here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/UI65bCysTdC5T92cxCXBlQ

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