SECOND DAY OF CONFERENCE

06:45-07:45 Women in Leadership Breakfast (Remarks from Carlene Firmin) TMS - The Rose Garden

07:00-08:00 Breakfast Meeting for Heads of A/OS- Assisted Schools TMS - Meeting Room 7

07:00-17:00 EARCOS REGISTRATION TPS - Function Room 3

07:30-17:00 EXHIBIT OPEN

08:00-08:30

Opening Remarks / Announcements The Pacific Sutera Grand Ballroom Morning Greetings by Stephen Cathers, EARCOS Board of Trustee Vice President & Head of School, International School Suva

08:30-09:15

Keynote Address

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Introduction of the Speaker: Jamie Jin, Senior Manager, Cambridge Assessment International Education

CARLENE FIRMIN

09:15-09:45

Build a Contextual Response to Peer-on-Peer Abuse in Schools

This keynote will introduce the audience to the global nature of peer-abuse between young people in schools – focusing on the dynamics present in international school contexts. Presenting global research evidence base, and emerging lessons from workshops with international school colleagues, the keynote will explore the significance of the school environment itself, student and staff cultures and wider neighbourhood settings to understand the capacity of schools to take a proactive approach to safeguarding their students. Particular dynamics of family, peer, school and community contexts, both online and offline, will be referenced to highlight the contextual nature of peer-abuse and to provide an evidence-base upon which to build strategic plans including levers within policy and practice frameworks in international school contexts. Drawing upon an extensive research evidence base, this keynote will provide school leaders with an insight into routes for them to address one of the most significant safeguarding risks faced by young people within educational settings around the world.

Biography

Carlene Firmin MBE is a British social researcher and writer specialising in violence between young people, and founder of the MsUnderstood Partnership. She is a senior research fellow at the University of Bedfordshire. Firmin was senior policy officer at Race on the Agenda (ROTA), and founded the GAG project (Girls Against Gangs, or Girls Affected by Gangs, or Gendered Action on Gangs). She has held positions of assistant director of policy and research at Barnardos, specialising in youth justice and sexual exploitation of children; principal policy adviser at the Office of the Children’s Commissioner; and head of the secretariat for the Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Groups and Gangs. Between 2011 and 2014 she wrote a regular column “Girl in the Corner” in The Guardian. In 2013 she founded the MsUnderstood Partnership, a joint project between Girls in Gangs, Imkaan and the University of Bedfordshire. The project “aims to improve local and national responses to young people’s experiences of inequality”. Firmin is a senior research fellow in the Institute of Applied Research of the Department of Applied Social Studies at the University of Bedfordshire.

Firmin was awarded an MBE in the 2011 New Year Honours for “services to girls’ and women’s issues”, and was the youngest black woman to have received this honour.

TEA & COFFEE BREAK

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