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| Course overview | Dates/times and links to book |
| Monitoring and evaluation for services working with child sexual abuse This webinar will look at the value of monitoring and evaluation in services responding to child sexual abuse, and set out some core principles. It will include explanation of key terms such as ‘data’, ‘outputs’ and ‘outcomes’, ways to develop outcomes and outcome measures for this group of services and methods for gathering data to evidence organisations’ activities (and their impact). A framework for thinking about this work will be described, including the use of Theory of Change model that allows for group discussion of aims and activities, and provides a visual representation of these. Learning from service users is a key part of this process, and we will consider issues in co-producing frameworks, and in how results are collected and shared. Our publication measuring your effectiveness – CSA Centre could also be useful for you. | Thursday 27th November 2025 at 2:00pm – 4:00pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/monitoring-and-evaluation-for-services-working-with-child-sexual-abuse-tickets-1302013971839?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| The scale and nature of child sexual abuse How many children currently experience sexual abuse in England and Wales? Are agencies and services seeing the full picture? In this session the CSA Centre provides an overview of the evidence base on the scale and nature of child sexual abuse in England and Wales. We will explore what we know about child sexual abuse from the latest Crime Survey for England and Wales and highlight the latest trends in children’s services and criminal justice data. We will look at how response differs in different regions and discuss what this all means for practice. The session aims to improve participants’ understanding of the available evidence and what they can draw on in services’ policy, fundraising and practice development work. | Thursday 22nd January 2026 at 2:00pm – 4:00pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scale-and-nature-of-child-sexual-abuse-tickets-1302017351949?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Civil orders for sexual and violent offending This session will focus on the initial thought processes of policing when a Child Sexual Abuse complaint is reported. It will cover detail explaining where calls/reports generally come from and what the immediate/long term Safeguarding concerns are, such as bail conditions. It will then go on to explain the Gathering Evidence expectations as well as the expectations from the Multi-agency Process. The input will also talk about the burden of proof which the police need to meet before the CPS will authorise charges, as well as dispelling myths which surround the term NFA (No Further Action). The session will finish off by highlighting some of the disruption measures that policing can use to best safeguard victims whilst restricting opportunities for the perpetration of sexual abuse | Wednesday 18th February 2026 at 10:00am – 12:00pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/civil-orders-for-sexual-and-violent-offending-tickets-1302019398069?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Working with adult survivors of child sexual abuse Being sexually abused as a child can affect every area of someone’s development and conservative estimates suggest that one in ten children and young people experience some form of child sexual abuse before the age of 16. For many of these children, their abuse will not be identified or responded to at the time, and my not receive support until many years later. This session will provide an introduction on how to best support adult survivors of child sexual abuse and embed learning from experts-by-experience. | Thursday 26th March 2026 at 2:00pm – 4:00pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-with-adult-survivors-of-child-sexual-abuse-tickets-1302026027899?aff=oddtdtcreator |