Led by Hazel O’Halloran, founder of Synergy Safeguarding this session explores key legislation, types of abuse, early warning signs, and how to respond with confidence and clarity.
Whether you're in a frontline role, volunteering, or in a leadership role, you'll leave with actionable tools to embed safeguarding into everyday practice and support safer, more accountable environments for children.
Gloucestershire VCSE Alliance supporting Neighbourhood Health.
About Synergy Safeguarding:
Hazel O’Halloran brings over 25 years of frontline and strategic safeguarding expertise having worked across housing associations, local authorities, adult social care, and the charitable sector. Trained as a Specialist Practitioner in Safeguarding Adults and a certified Train the Trainer for both children and adult safeguarding, Hazel has led transformative safeguarding initiatives from Board level to community outreach.
Founder of Synergy Safeguarding, Hazel now leads a consultancy that equips organisations and contractors with training, support, and a three-tier accreditation framework to help build safer workforces and communities. Her work spans commissioning safeguarding audits, managing governance and risk indicators, and embedding safeguarding into learning and development strategies.
Hazel also serves as a Non-Executive Director for Brighter Futures, a WISH Board member, and mentor for the Housing Diversity Network. Her approach blends strategic integrity with personal empathy, ensuring safeguarding solutions are both impactful and inclusive.
Please be aware that your booking information will be shared with Synergy Safeguarding in advance of the session to provide a more tailored event.
Lunch will be provided.
This event is fully funded for VCSE groups & organisations in Gloucestershire.
Booking information
To enable as many groups & organisations to access this course, we limit bookings to two per organisation. If you would like to book more than two spaces, please email bookings@glosvcsalliance.org.uk and we will aim to accomodate individual needs where possible.
Our courses are often oversubscribed and we therefore have a waiting list system in place for each course. If this course is fully booked, you can add yourself to the waiting list and we will let you know as soon as a place becomes available.
If you book a place and cannot attend for any reason, please email bookings@glosvcsalliance.org.uk asap so that we can allocate your place to someone else.
If you have any enquiries about this course, please email bookings@glosvcsalliance.org.uk and a member of our team will get back to you.
We look forward to welcoming you on 22 October.
Gloucestershire VCSE Alliance team
