This training is aimed at frontline professionals working with families once a child has disclosed sexual abuse, enabling them to feel more confident in their casework and more competent in their knowledge and skills in assessing each family’s own specific situation by:

• Understanding the definitions of CSA/E

• Developing an understanding of SIBs/HSB

• Information required at referral and identifying outstanding issues

• Exploring the nuances of who the perpetrator is and how that may impact on the support afforded the child

• Identifying the needs of the child

• Impact on the parents

• Supporting the parents

• Pursuing a complaint