Identifying and responding to child sexual abuse in education settings

Course Description

This one-day training course will equip Designated safeguarding leads with:

• A better understanding of:
  • the scale and nature of child sexual abuse
  • how the impact of child sexual abuse presents in children and young people, with particular focus on how it may present in an education environment
  • how education professionals can build a picture of their concerns of child sexual abuse, and when a referral to children’s services should be made
  • how children communicate their experiences of sexual abuse, and the role that education professionals can play in helping them do this.
• Greater confidence in identifying and responding to concerns of child sexual abuse.
• Greater confidence in identifyng and responding to harmful sexual behaviour between peers.

This course is delivered by the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse, find out more about the provider here.

“Teachers are the professionals to whom children most commonly talk about abuse. Research has shown that children who prefer trying to tell through behaviour rather than verbally want their teachers to notice signs such as self-harm, eating disorders, acting out in class, school attendance, and being alone and withdrawn at school.!

- Office of the Children’s Commissioner

If you have a troubleshooting issue, please contact the safeguardingineducationteam@bristol.gov.uk.

This training is now fully booked, dates for the new year to follow.