Course details:
Skilled facilitators use engaging and interactive materials, including case examples, and discuss:
- Different patterns and styles of male sexual offending against children
- How this knowledge helps to understand a carer’s responses during abuse and after disclosure
- The implications for assessing carers’ future likelihood of keeping children safe from sexual abuse
Course aims and objectives:
Participants will have a greater understanding of:
- What they bring to an assessment – their own knowledge and preconceptions
- A mother’s or partner’s response to suspected or disclosed abuse
- The impact of the offender on the mother/child relationship
- The attitudes to their non-abusing carer[s] of children who have been sexually abused
- How current sexual abuse models can be helpful when assessing the mother’s/partner’s ability to protect
- The potential impact of each aspect of the offender’s steps to offending on the mother or partner
- A framework for assessing a carer’s protective skills, knowledge, strengths and resilience
- What type of intervention a partner/carer may need.
For further information, or if you have booked a place on the course and have not received notification to attend please contact the Workforce Development & Learning Administrative Team. Please do not turn up to any course unless you have received notification of your place as the event may be fully booked.