Child exploitation training 25/26

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.

Aims

The aim of this session is:

• To clarify definitions and legislation related to child exploitation, and equip professionals with tools to assess risk and intervene appropriately if there are concerns a child is being criminally or sexually exploited

Learning objectives

By attending this course, participants will have:

• An increased knowledge of the definitions and types of criminal and sexual child exploitation;
• An improved knowledge to recognise the signs, vulnerabilities and stages of recruitment to child exploitation;
• An improved knowledge of peer on peer exploitation, ganges, county lines and gang associated sexual violence and exploitation;
• An ability to apply contextual thinking to extra-familial risk, and use direct work tools to explore this with children;
• An improved knowledge of how to plan for contextual risks and ability to identify potential contextual risk areas;
• An increased knowledge on push and pull factors to exploitation and barriers to engagement;
• An improved knowledge on the borough’s peer mapping of young people at risk or potentially at risk of exploitation;
• An improved knowledge and understanding to be able to complete the risk screening tool, or contribute to the social worker’s completion of the tool by asking a child the right questions and obtaining information from relevant professionals;
• An improved knowledge to recognise and challenge inappropriate use of language when referring to exploited children;
• An increased knowledge of modern slavery and when to refer to the National Referral Mechanism and Independent Child Trafficking Guardian;
• An increased knowledge to understand the local services and support available for exploited children;
• An ability to apply the relevant law and legislation relating to child exploitation