Child sexual abuse and disability; Understanding vulnerabilities; and the professional role
Online Course
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Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse
About the CPD course
The course will be grounded in a social understanding of disability and explore what this means; why it matters and how this can positively affect practice. It will enable participants to deepen their understanding of disability and how marginalisation and discrimination can affect the prevention; identification; and response to disabled children. This course aims to challenge assumptions and stereotypes to enable confident good practice that best protects all children.
The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA) has been established to help bring about significant and system-wide change in how child sexual abuse is responded to locally and nationally. We will do this by identifying, generating and sharing high quality evidence of what works to prevent and tackle Child Sexual Abuse (including Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)), to inform both policy and practice.
We are encouraging all sectors and organisational levels to engage with us, so that we can understand the needs of frontline staff, commissioners and those with responsibility for producing strategic responses to child sexual abuse. Our initial focus is child sexual exploitation; however our remit over the longer-term covers all forms of child sexual abuse.