Assessing the Protective Skills of Mothers, Partners and Adult Carers (child sexual abuse) 24/25

TARGET GROUP

This training is targeted at:

• Professionals in direct contact with children who undertake or contribute to risk assessments and multi-agency meetings including social workers, family support workers, health professionals, schools, police and others who work with children at risk of abuse, neglect and exploitation who work for the London Borough of Sutton 

Competency level: 

• Group Level 2 (regular contact with children, young people and/or parent/carer) or Level 3 (predominantly working with children) or above (including strategic leads), and NHS Inter-Collegiate Standards 2 and above for health professionals.

Please note: this course is for practitioners who have already attended the child sexual abuse awareness course, or already have prior knowledge and experience at the practitioner level.

This is a two day course, attendance is required at both sessions.

AIM

This aims of this course:

• To equip practitioners with the knowledge, skills and confidence to engage with non-offending partners to assess their capacity to keep a child safe within the context of suspected or actual significant harm under the category of child sexual abuse in pan-London child protection procedures. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this course, participants will have:

• An improved knowledge about the different patterns and styles of male sexual offending against children, including those who abuse online and via the internet;
• An increased knowledge to examine the models currently used to understand sexually abusive behaviour;
• An improved knowledge about the attitudes, beliefs and impact on the child and young person;
• An increased knowledge to examine the patterns and behaviour of the abuser’s relationship with the parent or carer and other relationships within the family and the wider community;
• An improved knowledge about a parent’s or carer’s responses to the abuse and its aftermath, in this context;
• An ability to develop strategies and techniques to engage a non-offending partners in assessment and care planning;
• An ability to develop knowledge, skills and confidence to assess a parent/carer’s capacity to keep children safe from sexual abuse.