Upcoming Making the Invisible…Visible! Child sexual abuse in family-based care

If you work with children and young people living away from home, this is a workshop you cannot afford to miss. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse established the very real risks of sexual abuse for children and young people living away from home. To protect children and young people in care from sexual abuse practitioners need to be aware of the dynamics of sexual offending, recognise indicators and assess the risk of sexual abuse, understand the ways children may disclose, remove barriers to this and implement prevention and safety strategies. Practitioners must know what to look for with sexual abuse and have an openness to seeing it. In this workshop you will learn about the dynamics of child sexual offending, typologies of offenders, the process of child grooming and four dimensions of risk and safety for child sexual abuse when children live away from home. Practitioners will walk away from this day feeling empowered about how to strengthen the safety of children in family-based care.

Who should attend?

Foster and Kinship Care Support Workers, Residential Youth Workers and any practitioner assessing, supporting or intervening with children, young people and carers in family-based care.