Developing your strategic response to child sexual abuse

Are you looking for guidance on developing your strategic response to child sexual abuse? 

This free webinar helps safeguarding partnerships to develop an effective, evidence-based strategy and introduces our Developing your strategic response guide. 

About the webinar 

It is estimated that 500,000 children will experience some form of in-person contact child sexual abuse each year in England and Wales. All safeguarding children partnerships have a leadership role to play in developing responses to child sexual abuse, so that all children and young people receive the protection and support they need, wherever they live.  

In 2024, the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s review into child sexual abuse within the family environment recommended that all safeguarding partnerships should “develop a local action plan to respond to its recommendations as it affects local multi-agency practice,” to help overcome local strategic challenges in identifying and responding to this abuse.  

To help, the CSA Centre’s Developing your strategic response guide enables partnerships to develop an effective, evidence-based strategy which covers each part of their response to child sexual abuse. This free webinar covers how to use the Developing your strategic response to child sexual abuse guide in your own work. 

Who is this webinar for? 

This webinar is for local or regional safeguarding children partnership, and the relevant individual agencies and organisations within it. It provides valuable insights for lead safeguarding partners, delegated safeguarding partners, independent scrutineers, business managers, commissioners, and all relevant agencies/organisations with statutory or strategic safeguarding responsibilities. 

About our introductory webinars 

This introductory webinar series is designed to help professionals working with children and families to build confidence using our practice resources to identify and respond to child sexual abuse.  

This session will be led by one of our Practice Improvement Advisers from the team who published this resource. Our advisers have significant experience working with children and families, delivering training, and working within multi-agency safeguarding arrangements. 

Related courses:  

Do you want your team to build their confidence and skills in identifying and responding to child sexual abuse? Take a look at the CSA Centre’s range of in-depth training courses for professionals across all agencies and sectors. 

Train the trainer – Intra-familial child sexual abuse (multi-agency) | CSA Centre 

An introduction to intra-familial child sexual abuse | CSA Centre 

The Child Sexual Abuse Practice Leads Programme | CSA Centre 

Questions?   

For more information on this webinar and series please contact: training@csacentre.org.uk