Training Sessions
Pre-Prepared or Tailored
Tailored Training Sessions
Sessions can be adjusted to align with the needs of the audience. Sessions can be delivered online or face-to-face, subject to location and feasibility.
To discuss your requirements and explore a tailored session, please complete the Enquiry form below.
Alternatively, choose from one of our pre-prepared Training sessions below.
Topics that can be covered in tailored sessions include:
How child sexual abuse occurs
Finkelhor’s model. Four stages: sexual motivation, overcoming internal inhibitions, overcoming external impediments, and undermining the child's resistance
Grooming of the child, family, friends and community
Viewing images of CSA and the risks presented
Damages the child and protective parent/carers relationship
The cycle of CSA
Why children do not tell
Possible signs of CSA
Negative impacts of CSA
How to best support children who disclose or who have been harmed
Keep safe work
Understanding denial as a response from a protective carer
Overview of Capacity to Protect assessments
Brief overview of children who show harmful sexual behaviour
Brief overview of female perpetrators of CSA
When to act on concerns and especially when there are signs and concerns in relation to possible CSA
Topics that may be more relevant to specialist family violence and child protection type roles:
Links between family violence and child sexual abuse
Sensitive conversation with protective parent or carers, when there are possible signs, on the need to consider the possibility of the child/ren having been sexually abused.
How to talk to children about possible harm and or keeping safe
Empower protective parents or carers with tools and in having conversations with the children about possible harm and keep safe work.
The importance of capacity to protect type assessments
The importance of thorough risk assessments
Safer recruitment training - brief overview or
Safer recruitment focused training - For recruiters to paid or voluntary positions that provide direct care or support to children
Unfortunately some people who cause CSA will attempt to place themselves in roles where they have direct links to children and often where there are vulnerable children. This can include teachers, foster carers, kindergarten staff, residential workers and anywhere where staff and volunteers have access to children as part of their role.
Whilst onboarding it’s important that all relevant checks are completed. Relevant checks including Police and Working With Children Checks, (WWCC) are useful. However, unfortunately they are only useful if a person harming a child has been reported to relevant services, relevant follow up actions have taken place and where relevant information shared. Unfortunately, there are many perpetrators/sex offenders (those who CSA) in the community, who have not yet been caught, or have not been reported, so these checks are important but cleared police checks or WWCC, should not be the most important item when considering if a candidate is safe to work with children and regardless of how fantastic they and their application is presenting. Those who cause CSA are often experts at getting others to like and trust them. As part as the recruitment/application process, other tasks are also important when considering if a person has the overall right intensions when working with children. Recruitment tasks may include further exploration and evidence gathering that may highlight items that show cause for concern. Tasks may include robust reference checking, using tools that include boundary questions at interview. The Safer recruitment training includes an overview of CSA along with skill and knowledge development on safer recruitment.
If you would like to discuss a tailored session that may include certain topics listed above, please complete the Enquiry form below.
Online Safety for Children - Keep Young Safe does not provide specific training on keeping children safe online, particularly due to the constantly changing nature and risks associated with online environments. In Australia, there are numerous organisations that provide professional support, resources and guidance to assist in keeping children safe online. These include eSafety Commissioner, the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE), Kids Helpline and the Alannah & Madeline Foundation – eSmart
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