Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Training Course (Level 3)

Course Overview

Child Sexual Exploitation is a serious issue which impacts on hundreds of children who are in looked after care. Many children have bee exposed to experiences and abuse which has a long lasting and traumatic impact and therefore need very individual and therapeutic support.

This training course describes the meaning of the terms; abuse, child sexual exploitation, child sexual abuser, professional perpetrator, grooming and trafficking and identifies how knowledge and awareness of child sexual exploitation forms part of the wider principles of safeguarding.

This training course considers potential reasons why despite knowing about young people who are especially vulnerable, child sexual exploitation continues to happen and goes unreported and discusses preventative ways of working in order to reduce the risk or likelihood of this happening.

This training course identifies with key principles relating to relevant legislation and defines key regulations relating to child sexual exploitation of the Children’s Homes Regulations (2015).

This training course describes the impact of trauma for children who have been sexually exploited and/or sexually abused and identifies ways to assess the emotional impact of this including recognising links into reactions and behaviours.

This training course explains potential influencing factors which may increase the risk of child sexual exploitation and describes potential indicators which may raise concerns that a child may be being groomed for child sexual exploitation or may be already being abused.

This training course explains the four stages of ‘The Grooming Line’, evaluates the connection between grooming and exploitation and considers the ways in which a perpetrator can aim to gain power over a vulnerable child.

This training course compares and explains the characteristics associated with the following models of child sexual exploitation; Boyfriend Model, Gang Model, Peer Model, Online Model, Familial Model, Opportunistic Model and Trafficking Model.

This training course considers different ways of preventative working in order to reduce the risk of child sexual exploitation and/or child sexual abuse from occurring from the perspective of educational, support teams and organisational approaches.

This training course determine the procedure to follow for when a child makes a disclosure or allegation about present or historic child sexual exploitation or abuse whilst considering how challenging and frightening it can be for a child to make a disclosure.

This training course explains different ways of supporting children who are either vulnerable to the risks of child sexual exploitation and/or child sexual abuse and/or have been exploited or abused historically or recently, whilst providing support to professionals who are working with children who have been exploited and/or sexually abused. This is a Level 3 accredited course.

Course Learning Outcomes

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Accreditation

The course content are accredited by the Open College Network (OCN) Credit4Learning as a Level 3 course.

Certification

Each learner completing this course will receive an accredited Level 3 certificate of learning.

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