Teacher Training
Your Safeguarding Sessions Are Only One Piece of a Very Big Puzzle — There Is So Much More Staff and School Leaders Need To Understand
Jeremy brings what traditional safeguarding training cannot: a deeply human insight into what children and teenagers can feel and think around sexual abuse — which can, at times, be very different from what adults expect.
Why Jeremy Indika’s Teacher Training Matters for Your School
Jeremy Indika brings lived experience into the room. When he was eight years old, he was sexually abused by a 35-year-old man, with the abuse continuing for approximately a year without anyone finding out. He kept the secret hidden throughout his childhood and teenage years, only speaking out for the first time at the age of 27.
Reflecting on his experience, Jeremy recognises that a strong school environment with confident, informed staff could have significantly changed his journey. It may have enabled him to speak up earlier and escape the situation he was in, or at the very least, helped him to disclose during his teenage years and access the support he needed.
His training sessions draw directly on this understanding. Through audience interaction, carefully chosen analogies, and structured activities, Jeremy helps staff build confidence in how they think about, notice, and respond to safeguarding concerns.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session, participants will:
- Gain a deeper understanding of what a child or teenager may feel in an abusive situation — which is often very different from common assumptions or stereotypes.
- Develop greater empathy and awareness, enabling more sensitive and confident safeguarding responses.
- Understand the importance of following formal safeguarding procedures and never becoming complacent.
- Recognise the early signs that a child might be at risk or struggling to disclose.
- Receive Jeremy’s holistic three-pronged action plan to maximise the chances that children and teenagers will come forward, creating a safer, more responsive school culture.
Session Length
The session can be delivered at any length up to a half day (4 hours). Jeremy strongly recommends that schools allocate the maximum time they can, as the value of the training increases significantly with a longer format. Extended sessions allow for audience participation, group activities, video elements, and deeper exploration of key themes.
Jeremy fully understands how challenging it can be for schools to gather all staff for extended periods, but feedback consistently shows that staff benefit greatly from the additional time. Schools that book shorter sessions — for example, 60 minutes — often comment afterwards that they wish they had booked longer.
However, if a shorter session is all a school can manage, Jeremy is still able to deliver essential learning and create meaningful impact within that timeframe.
