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No Whispers Community Interest Company delivers child sexual exploitation awareness training. As part of community, health, social work, or education it is important to understand the part you play as an influential adult and your role in safeguarding to prevent children and young people from becoming victims of exploitation and abuse. This impactful, informative, and interactive training for adults focuses on the process of grooming, different forms of exploitation, signs of abuse, vulnerabilities of children and young people, contextual safeguarding, sexual offences, barriers to disclosures, appropriate language, victim blaming, the impact of trauma, effective reporting, and understanding “reachable” and “critical” moments in a child or young person’s life.
102,000 child sexual abuse offences were reported for England and Wales for the year ending March 2023. (The Home Office Impact Assessment, Oct 2023). 16,000 children face child sexual exploitation every year. (Barnardo’s) There are 60,000 reports of 7 – 10-year-old children who have been coerced into sexual acts by an online predator. (Internet Watch Foundation).
The Government’s “Tackling child sexual abuse strategy” (Feb 2021) emphasises the need for everyone to play their part “…across all agencies, all sectors, charities, communities, technology companies and society more widely”.
To understand the definition of child sexual exploitation and the connection with child criminal exploitation and human trafficking.
• To understand the process of grooming face to face and online.
• To identify signs and indicators of sexual abuse and exploitation.
• To understand the vulnerabilities of children and young people
• To gain knowledge of sexual offences related to child sexual exploitation.
• To understand the barriers to disclosures and reporting
• To understand the significance of language and victim blaming
• To know how to recognise, respond, record, report, and refer.
• To understand the importance of reachable and critical moments and a child centred approach which reflects the rights of the child.
• To understand your role and responsibility in relation to safeguarding and duty of care.
Karen Livesey is a qualified teacher, youth worker and experienced trainer. She began her professional career as a Primary School teacher in London before becoming an Advanced Practitioner for Lancashire Youth and Community Service for 26 years. With increasing issues identified in child sexual and criminal exploitation Karen pursued specialist training in child sexual exploitation, safeguarding, modern day slavery and sexual health. She completed Advanced training in Sexual health, Advanced Safeguarding, Adverse Childhood Experience training, Advanced Accredited Level 4 training in Child sexual exploitation, and a PGCE at UCLan in Leadership and Management in Social Work and Social Care. Karen has worked for Barnardo’s National Counter Trafficking Centre as a Regional Practice Co-Ordinator. She is currently an associate trainer for Talking Life Training and an As and When Trainer for Barnardo’s Training and Consultancy.
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