Prioritising child sexual abuse in Barnsley
Find out more about the online Barnsley Strategic Workshop, on Wednesday 11th February 2026
Drive meaningful change in responding to child sexual abuse in Barnsley
This Strategic Workshop, facilitated by the CSA Centre, will provide a dedicated space for key stakeholders across the partnership to reflect on the wider context of child sexual abuse. During the three-hour session, we will consider national data and learning, your local context, and your priorities to inform and shape the development of the local response to child sexual abuse in Barnsley.
The Workshop will bring together professionals from across the partnership to explore priorities, clarify collective goals, and agree on practical next steps, providing a platform to strengthen collaboration and improve the identification of and response to child sexual abuse.
Agenda – Wednesday 11th February
12:30 – Introduction and scene setting (15 minutes)
Welcomes and introductions from the CSA Centre and representatives from Barnsley
12:45 – The local context of child sexual abuse (45 minutes)
The local area will give a presentation to the group to highlight the local area’s context in relation to child sexual abuse, outlining the key priorities, any local rapid reviews or Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and considerations of what engagement with the CSA Centre would hope to achieve.
13:30 – Comfort break (15 Minutes)
Short break before second half of the Strategic Workshop.
13:45 Developing your strategic response (35 Minutes)
The CSA Centre will provide brief feedback from the full-day Roadshow in November and introduce the resource Developing your strategic response to child sexual abuse: A guide for safeguarding children partnerships and support the development of an action plan.
14:20 – Embedding practice learning and strengthening responses (45 Minutes)
The session will conclude with some considerations of how local areas can support and embed practice learning and strengthen responses to child sexual abuse with an introduction to the Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway (the approach recommended in the Government’s 2025 Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Progress Update), the CSA Centre’s Practice Leads Programme, and the Funding and commissioning child sexual abuse services guide.
15:05 – Next steps (25 Minutes)
The Local Area will lead on reflections and next steps for local agencies and organisations, with opportunity for recap and question and answers from the CSA Centre.
Attendance at the workshop should be sufficiently broad to ensure representation from across the partnership whilst keeping the group size manageable. It will be valuable to include those with specialist knowledge or operational responsibility for responding to child sexual abuse, alongside strategic leads who can influence planning and decision-making, based on local themes and feedback from the Roadshow event in November.
Get support
If you, or someone you work with, has been impacted by child sexual abuse, there are services and people who can help.
Visit our Get Support page to find the details of services who can offer immediate advice and support if you have concerns about child sexual abuse. You can also search through our directory of support services in England and Wales to find the details of organisations who can help you locally.
