Join 30 Park Place chambers and Legal News Wales for this free webinar on the Brought Justice Review and the ongoing duty to safeguard.
The Brought Justice Report, published on 4 November 2025, offers a sobering account of systemic safeguarding failures in Gwynedd. Despite clear statutory duties, established procedures, and repeated opportunities for intervention, abuse was allowed to continue unchecked for more than six years.
This review exposes an uncomfortable truth: safeguarding frameworks in Wales are robust on paper, yet their effectiveness depends entirely on the vigilance, accountability and professional integrity of those tasked with applying them.
As with the Clywch Report two decades earlier, the message endures — children are protected not by policy alone, but by people willing to act.
The webinar
This free webinar, hosted on Microsoft Teams will explore the details and impact of the review, and feature barristers from 30 Park Place and guest speakers (listed below).
Who should attend?
Anyone the Child Practice Review impacts.
The Child Practice Review aims to identify any steps that can be taken by the Safeguarding Board partners (Police, Local Authority, Health or other bodies) to achieve improvements in multi-agency child protection practice.
Speakers
- Jane Crowley KC, 30 Park Place
- Sian Jones, Safeguarding Manager, Welsh Sports Association
- Nathan Jones, 30 Park Place
- Lowri Patterson, 30 Park Place
- Huw Davies, 30 Park Place
- Laura Shepherd, 30 Park Place
Background reading
In his latest article for Legal News Wales, Huw Davies, a barrister at 30 Park Place chambers, explores where systems broke down, the legal obligations that should have prevented this harm, and the practical lessons that must now shape safeguarding practice across Wales. Click here for more.
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