One Day Responding to Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Practice Training (31/01/2024)

Target Audience: Multi agency children and family practitioners

Following this training delegates will be able to:

• Understand the scale and nature of Child Sexual Abuse,
• Identify and respond to Child Sexual Abuse across different contexts, using the signs and indicators tool produced by the centre of expertise,
• Recognise verbal and nonverbal indicators of CSA,
• Identify barriers to disclosure for children and consider how this impacts upon on identification of CSA by professionals,
• Consider how barriers apply to specific groups of children based on individual characteristics,
• Understand the impact of unreconciled CSA across the life course,
• Consider the impact of CSA on siblings and wider family members,
• Engage with non-abusing parents/carers to support safeguarding and recovery,
• Increase protective factors and resilience in families following CSA,
• Identify the need for practitioner self-care.

Sexual abuse occurs across a range of contexts and can result in children and young people experiencing debilitating levels of trauma, which can have both an immediate and long-lasting impact.

This training will highlight these areas and take a child’s rights based approach to CSA assessment and intervention across a range of contexts.

This course is designed to meet the needs of different professionals working with this group of children. The purpose is to support colleagues by enhancing their understanding of engagement, assessment and recovery of CSA across all of its domains and equip them to identify and provide proportionate responses to meet the child’s needs in a family, online and community context.

A range of theoretical perspectives will be outlined to provide a comprehensive approach to the complex issues experienced by children and families impacted by CSA across all of its domains.

This course aims to help professionals develop skills and techniques in assessing and working directly with children, young people and families within the area of child sexual abuse.

This course will use case studies, exercises and discussion to help professionals to reflect on their practice as well as build confidence when working with children and young people where there are sexual concerns.