Learning from the Sara Sharif Review

This webinar offers a sensitive, multi-agency exploration of the key learning emerging from the Sara Sharif Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review. Facilitated by a specialist in cultural competence, intersectional safeguarding and challenging systemic inequity, the session provides a reflective space for practitioners to examine what happened and what it means for future practice.

Key themes include:

· Professional curiosity and critical questioning

· Disguised compliance and patterns of avoidance

· Information-sharing gaps and systemic missed opportunities

· Cultural, linguistic and gender dynamics shaping engagement

· Bias, racism and structural barriers experienced by racially minoritised and migrant families

The webinar is designed to strengthen culturally competent, curiosity-driven safeguarding practice and keep the child’s lived experience at the centre.

Trainer Profile – Anjum Mouj

With over 35 years’ experience in the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) sector, Anjum Mouj is widely recognised for her leadership across statutory, community and VCFSE settings. Her career spans frontline advocacy, national policy influence and the design of high-impact training for multi-agency professionals. Anjum brings deep expertise in coercive control, perpetrator behaviour, honour-based abuse, and the experiences of racially minoritised, migrant and multilingual families. She is also highly skilled in facilitating conversations about bias, racism and cultural competency, creating safe, reflective spaces for diverse teams to examine how these issues shape safeguarding practice and outcomes.

Her depth of experience enables her to facilitate these conversations with care, clarity and respect, helping professionals turn review findings into safer, more equitable safeguarding practice.