Date: Thursday, 14th November
Time: 10am – 11am
E-mail ctmsafeguarding@rctcbc.gov.uk to book onto this session
As part of Safeguarding Week, which takes place from 11th – 15th November, the ‘Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse’ is hosting an online session on ‘Improving the response to Child Sexual Abuse: The Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway’.
The Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway is an interactive online resource that sets out how to respond to concerns of child sexual abuse at key points: From first concerns and early help safeguarding through to child protection and criminal justice. It focuses on meeting the needs of children and their families and is designed to empower professionals to understand the role they, and their colleagues, can play to best protect and support children. What is unique about this pathway is that it doesn’t just tell professionals what to do, it helps them to understand how to do it.
The Response Pathway is designed for professionals working with children, each with their own safeguarding responsibilities and is particularly helpful for social workers, teachers, police officers, health professionals and those in the voluntary sector who work with children and families. It has been developed to supplement, not replace, existing statutory guidance and is carefully grounded in the principles of Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023.
If you are a practitioner seeking to improve your knowledge, skills and confidence in your response to concerns of child sexual abuse, this is a session that you can’t afford to miss as it will provide you with the most up to date evidence-based guidance at the touch of a button in helping you to do the right thing with confidence.
Beth Melhuish 07385 039608
Communications & Engagement Officer, Cwm Taf Morgannwg Safeguarding Board
