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In this powerful episode, we welcome Anjum Mouj, a highly experienced trainer, facilitator, and consultant, who has dedicated her career to advancing safeguarding practices and creating safer, more inclusive spaces for all.
Key Takeaways:
With a background in roles like Director and Training Manager at the London Black Women’s Project and Imkaan, Anjum brings deep insights into safeguarding practices that truly reflect the diversity of communities they serve. She currently trains with Solace Women’s Aid and has collaborated with the NSPCC to develop courses in child protection, supervision skills, and safer recruitment.
Our conversation covers the critical need for safeguarding policies to be living documents that evolve alongside the communities they aim to protect. Anjum emphasises the importance of intersectionality in safeguarding, highlighting how policies should account for diverse lived experiences, particularly those of marginalised groups.
She shares practical ways organisations can create safeguarding frameworks that are inclusive, sensitive to unconscious bias, and centred around individuals' real needs and circumstances.
We also discuss the significance of listening actively to marginalised voices and how inclusive practices can help build stronger, more resilient communities. Anjum’s passion for safeguarding shines through as she shares strategies for building trust, embracing diversity, and fostering belonging within safeguarding structures.
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By Madison ClarkeIn this powerful episode, we welcome Anjum Mouj, a highly experienced trainer, facilitator, and consultant, who has dedicated her career to advancing safeguarding practices and creating safer, more inclusive spaces for all.
Key Takeaways:
With a background in roles like Director and Training Manager at the London Black Women’s Project and Imkaan, Anjum brings deep insights into safeguarding practices that truly reflect the diversity of communities they serve. She currently trains with Solace Women’s Aid and has collaborated with the NSPCC to develop courses in child protection, supervision skills, and safer recruitment.
Our conversation covers the critical need for safeguarding policies to be living documents that evolve alongside the communities they aim to protect. Anjum emphasises the importance of intersectionality in safeguarding, highlighting how policies should account for diverse lived experiences, particularly those of marginalised groups.
She shares practical ways organisations can create safeguarding frameworks that are inclusive, sensitive to unconscious bias, and centred around individuals' real needs and circumstances.
We also discuss the significance of listening actively to marginalised voices and how inclusive practices can help build stronger, more resilient communities. Anjum’s passion for safeguarding shines through as she shares strategies for building trust, embracing diversity, and fostering belonging within safeguarding structures.
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