Child Sexual Abuse Training

Essex County Council's Children and Families team needed to improve its understanding and response to Child Sexual

Abuse. In response to this, ESCA wanted to work with the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse and

purchase their accredited Child Sexual Abuse Practice leads programme and managers programme. The child

sexual abuse practice leads programme is a rigorous programme involving one or two days of learning per month,

depending on timings for delivery. Delegates attend 10 1/2 day learning sessions, which include a half-day

consolidation session at the end, where they will be joined by their managers to focus on embedding learning into

practice. The training is CPD certificated and the content of courses is regularly reviewed to ensure that learners

have access to the latest developments in research and practice. The Centre apply vigorous standards of

monitoring and evaluation to all their work, and examples of previous evaluations of the practice leads

programme can be found on their website.