Equipping social work educators to teach about child sexual abuse

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Course content and structure

Session 1: Identification and assessment skills where child sexual abuse is known or suspected

This session will enable those in educator roles to support the children’s social care workforce to build a picture of their concerns when they are worried that a child or young person they are working with is being, or has been, sexually abused.

Session 2: Understanding how children communicate about sexual abuse and the skills needed to respond effectively

This session aims to enable those in educator roles support the children’s social care workforce to understand what they can do to help children tell. 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 children’s social care can do to help children communicate what is happening.

Session 3: Whole family approaches to child sexual abuse across a range of contexts

This session aims to help those in social work educator roles to enable the workforce to respond to the needs of all family members where child sexual abuse is known or suspected. Each session will consider responding to the needs of the family in different contexts of child sexual abuse for example, in the context of sexual abuse inside and outside the family environment, harmful sexual behaviour by another child, and online– you can see which of these contexts is covered in a specific session when registering using the Teams links below.

How to book

This workshop series will be held on the first Wednesday of every month from November 2026 up until April 2028.

Use the links below to access the Teams registration link – remember to sign up to each webinar you wish to attend. Registering for one day does not grant you entry to the full series.