Train the trainer – Intra-familial child sexual abuse (for social workers)

Intra-familial child sexual abuse is often missing from social work training, leaving many social workers and other children’s services staff feeling ill-equipped in the knowledge, skills, and confidence to work on these cases. The CSA Centre’s a one-day ‘Intra-familial child sexual abuse – an introduction for social workers’ course to address this knowledge gap, with excellent feedback from participants.

Train the trainer equips local authorities and university social work programmes with the knowledge, associated training materials and resources to embed the course into their own training programmes. Its purpose is to increase knowledge internally, reduce reliance on external commissioning and provide ongoing sustainability of this pivotal learning over time.

This course is perfect for those whose role already includes sharing knowledge and learning with others, and who would like to deliver the introductory training on intra-familial child sexual abuse in their place of work. Taking part in this course takes us one step closer to the ultimate goal of improving the professional response to child sexual abuse.

What can you expect to gain?

By taking part in our Train the trainer course, you will develop your understanding of the following areas to enable participants to train others:

• The scale and nature of child sexual abuse.
• The challenges and obstacles in practice, and how to overcome these.
• How the impact of child sexual abuse presents in children and young people.
• How children communicate their experiences of sexual abuse, and the professional role in helping them do this.
• Who it is who abuses children.
• How and why sexual abuse happens in families.

You will also gain an increased knowledge of the tools, frameworks and resources which can support practice, of different exercises and methods of delivering training materials, and build confidence in delivering training on intra-familial child sexual abuse.

What does the course look like?

Train the trainer is delivered using presentations alongside interactive small group exercises, larger group discussions and video/audio material, and has been  developed to balance learning with opportunities to reflect individually and as a collective.

There will be engaging tasks for all participants to complete in between sessions, including acquainting themselves with the training manual and associated materials, and identifying opportunities within their local area for delivery.

Day 1

On day 1 participants will join online to receive the course “Intra-familial child sexual abuse – an introduction for social workers” as a participant. This delivery will be recorded and shared with participants who will have access to this recording as a reference point in preparation for their own delivery of the 1-day course slides.

Day 2 to 3

Days 2 and 3 are self-learning where participants will work through a list of activities independently. Participants may choose how and when to complete their activities in line with their other commitments. We advise that you allow between 4 to 8 weeks for this. The activities are designed to build on participants learning from the 1-day course, so they can confidently deliver the material themselves upon completion of the whole ‘train the trainer’ course.

Days 4-5

Days 4 and 5 will take place between 4 and 8 weeks after Day 1 and will be delivered in-person over 2 consecutive days. These in-person days will provide participants with opportunities to practice delivering the material themselves in small groups.”

The pace was great and facilitators were always proactive in getting the most from participants. I think you were fabulous!

 

Senior lecturer, Department for Education