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13 May 2025

Role & Responsibilities of Designated Liaison Person (DLP) – Online 13/05/2025

Target Audience

Those appointed to the role of Designated Liaison Person (DLP) within their organisation.

Outline

This online training session aims to provide an understanding of the role and responsibilities of a Designated Liaison Person (DLP) and the organisational responsibilities in relation to child safeguarding and protection.

Methodology

Delivered virtually via Zoom.

Instructor

Olive Ring

Olive Ring’s qualifications include an honours Degree in Social Science, Higher Diploma in youth and community work and a Masters in Applied Social Studies. She was first employed as a youth worker and then manager, and moved into the area of child protection while employed in Barnardos.

She was previously employed as the National Child Protection Manager (National Youth Council of Ireland) for 8 years for the youth work sector, with responsibility for supporting the 40,000 volunteers and 1500 youth work professionals with their child protection and safeguarding responsibilities.

Outcomes

Participants should leave with a better understanding of:

  • The role and responsibilities of a DLP
  • Child protection responsibilities of services
  • When and how to make a referral to the statutory services
  • Mandatory reporting
  • Recording, managing and sharing information.

 

Carmichael’s Spring/Summer 2025 Scheduled Training Programme is kindly sponsored by BoardEffect.

BoardEffect is part of Diligent, the leader in modern governance. BoardEffect delivers an agile board management solution optimised for governance leaders of nonprofits, higher education institutions, community healthcare organisations, and credit unions with the right tools, analytics, and insights to drive more efficient, transparent, and secure governance.

Fees

€80Nonprofit Organisation
€70Carmichael Resident Organisation
€90Statutory Organisation
€90Corporate Organisation

Testimonials

Slides and scenarios given were very clear and helpful.
Very practical, Olive's expertise really shone through.
The breakout groups were very useful, to be able to apply the knowledge gained from the course into a situation and debate what the right steps to take was a great way to put the content of the course into a real world situation that could very possibly happen.
It was a very informative course and delivered in a professional manner.

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