Using Supervision and Team Meetings to Improve Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

A webinar to help professionals start discussions about child sexual abuse within their teams in a supportive space, reflect on the experiences of children and families they are working with, explore their team’s and their own welfare, and consider how the evidence might inform and develop their practice.

The Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway 

A webinar to help professionals learn how to start using the Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway in practice, and empower them to understand the role they, and their colleagues, can play to best protect and support children. The session gives advice and examples of how to use the Response Pathway and explains how it supports professionals to meet the needs of children and their families.

Scale and Nature of Child Sexual Abuse

A webinar to help professionals understand the scale and nature of child sexual abuse across England and Wales, the contexts in which abuse happens, and the vulnerabilities within children’s environments that can increase the opportunity for abuse to occur.

Signs and Indicators of Child Sexual Abuse

A webinar to introduce professionals to the Signs and Indicators Template and give an opportunity to use it in practice. It aims to give professionals working with children the knowledge and confidence to act when they are concerned about a child.

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Communicating with Children about Sexual Abuse

A webinar to help give professionals the knowledge and confidence to act, using the CSA Centre’s Communicating with Children Guide. In this session we will explain what may be going on for children when they are being sexually abused, what prevents them from talking about their abuse, and what professionals can do to help children communicate about what is happening.

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Supporting Parents and Carers When Their Child Has Been Sexually Abused

A webinar to highlight the impact of child sexual abuse on parents and carers. The session also provides guidance on the support actions professionals can take to effectively support parents and carers.

Responding to Harmful Sexual Behaviour in Education Settings

A webinar focusing on education settings and what professionals, both directly and indirectly, invovled can do to help. Using the CSA Centre's Safety Planning in Education Guide, the session explains what may be going on for children when they display harmful sexual behaviour and what professionals can do to help them speak about it. 

Understanding Medical Examinations for Child Sexual Abuse Concerns

An informative and evidence-based resource from the Centre of Expertise on CSA for frontline practitioners in social care, health and police to explain the paediatric medical examination that takes place when there is a disclosure or suspicion of child sexual abuse.

West Midlands Child & Young Person's Sexual Assualt Service 

An introductory presentation to West Midlands Regional CYPSAS.