Training Course
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Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse
About the CPD course
This course will provide an introduction to harmful sexual behaviour in online contexts. This is harmful sexual behaviour which is facilitated via technology; an issue affecting growing numbers of children and young people. The course will look at context and emergence of the subject and why it is an important topic for professionals working with young people. Exploring of the (limited) research base; alongside practice examples to highlight considerations for frontline practice. The course will consider: Sexual development in a digital world. The impact of harmful sexual behaviour in online contexts.
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.
