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| “I wanted them all to notice”: Protecting children and responding to child sexual abuse within the family environment In November 2024 the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel published their national review “I wanted them all to notice: Protecting children and responding to child sexual abuse within the family environment.” The findings of this national review highlight a systemic failure across all services to recognise and respond when children are at risk of, or are already, being sexually abused by someone in their family environment. Anna Glinski, from the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse who were commissioned to undertake the review, will provide an overview of the key findings and recommendations, allowing time for any questions or reflections on the report. | Monday 28th April 2025 at 2:00pm – 4:00pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-child-safeguarding-practice-review-panel-recommendations-tickets-1259589087869?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Managing risk & trauma after online sexual offending There has been an exponential increase in the numbers of people being arrested for accessing child sexual abuse material online, with the current average standing at around 850 people a month. Many of those who are arrested are living with their partners and children and the impact on the whole family can be devastating. Professionals can, however, make a difference. This session will introduce participants to the CSA Centre’s Managing risk and trauma after online sexual offending: A whole-family safeguarding guide. It will highlight the research evidence on this type of offending and provide practical advice for professionals on how to safeguard and support families at a time of great emotional distress. | Wednesday 28th May 2025 at 10:00am – 12:00pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/managing-risk-and-trauma-after-online-sexual-offending-tickets-1259614102689 |
| Pornography – its use and impact There is a growing recognition that access to pornography is having a negative impact on some children’s behaviour and attitudes. In this session we will explore what research tells us about how young people access pornography and some of the reasons for this, learn how easy access to adult content can impact negatively on children and young people – including body image, expectations of sex, attitudes to women and girls and harmful sexual behaviour and intimate partner violence. We will also be and looking at ways we can support children and young people in this space. | Thursday 26th June 2025 at 10:00am – 12:00pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pornography-its-use-and-impact-tickets-1301907042009?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Understanding statutory thresholds and escalating safeguarding concerns to Children’s Social Care Effective multi-agency working is dependent on an open approach and honest relationships between agencies. Problem solving and resolution is an integral part of professional co-operation and joint working to safeguard children. Transparency, openness and a willingness to understand and respect individual and agency views are a core aspect of multi-agency/inter-agency working, however, there may be occasions where individuals/agencies have differing views on how best to keep children safe and promote their welfare. Some of these challenges may be around perceived levels of risk, roles and responsibilities, action or lack of action progressing safeguarding plans and closure of cases. In this webinar we will explore the ‘Working Together To Safeguard Children’ statutory guidance to improve our understanding of the legislative framework for working with children and young people and reflect on our practice in escalating safeguarding concerns to Children’s Social Care relating to child sexual abuse. | Tuesday 8th July 2025 at 10:00am – 12:00pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-statutory-thresholds-and-escalating-safeguarding-concerns-tickets-1301970953169?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Supporting parents / carers when their child may have been sexually abused Research shows that the support the child receives from their main caregivers and wider family is one of the most significant factors in affecting the longer-term impacts of sexual abuse and will have a big influence on how a child will understand and respond to what has happened. This webinar aims to help to give professionals guidance for situations where the child has been sexually abused by an adult or adults or experienced another child’s harmful sexual behaviour, whether this has taken place inside or outside their family environment. | Wednesday 17th September 2025 at 10:00am – 12:00pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supporting-parents-carers-when-their-child-may-have-been-sexually-abused-tickets-1301991865719?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Child sexual abuse in the context of exploitation This session will focus on framing child sexual exploitation as a form of child sexual abuse, the term ‘exchange’ and consent. The webinar will give an overview of the links to other forms of abuse, the vulnerabilities and the signs and indicators that professionals should be aware of when working with adolescents. The session will explore intersectionality and adultification bias as well as why language is important when working with young people who are being sexually abused through intra-familial harm. | Wednesday 15th October 2025 at 2:00pm – 4:00pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/child-sexual-abuse-in-the-context-of-exploitation-tickets-1302006268799?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| 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 |