Sexual Exploitation Awareness Training
Does Your Organisation Recognise and Respond To The Needs Effectively?
Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is a type of sexual abuse in which children are sexually exploited for money, power or status.
Children or young people may be tricked into believing they're in a loving, consensual relationship. They might be invited to parties and given drugs and alcohol. They may also be groomed online.
Some children and young people are trafficked into or within the UK for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Sexual exploitation can also happen to young people in gangs.
The attrition rate (the number of cases which fail to reach judicial process) is staggering (Allnock, 2015) and highlights that CSE and Sexual Exploitation (SE) is a complex, under-reported issue; there are no quick fixes, no number of services which can afford to work in isolation. The benefit of your intervention depends on the awareness, skills and experience of your staff.
SMART Training and Consultancy can work with you to improve all three areas through training and ongoing consultancy services.
So far SMART Training and Consultancy has delivered training to Childrens homes, Social Services, teachers, probation officers and prison staff on working with young deemed at risk of CSE and SE.
The feedback we receive continually demonstrates that practitioners who have been on our training have been able to improve their practice and better effectively respond to the needs of the young people they work with.
Delivered by trainers with front-line experience of working with those deemed hardest to reach, they not only speak from experience, but are also able to relate findings from research and academic studies.
No glamourising, no nonsense, just a solid practical focus on what is known to work!
Usual course length: 1-2 days
Courses can be tailor-made from the following elements:
All employees or 'Front Line' practitioners who deal with those 'at risk' or suspected of exploitation
Get in touch with us to discuss your needs and get your quote
Children or young people may be tricked into believing they're in a loving, consensual relationship. They might be invited to parties and given drugs and alcohol. They may also be groomed online.
Some children and young people are trafficked into or within the UK for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Sexual exploitation can also happen to young people in gangs.
The attrition rate (the number of cases which fail to reach judicial process) is staggering (Allnock, 2015) and highlights that CSE and Sexual Exploitation (SE) is a complex, under-reported issue; there are no quick fixes, no number of services which can afford to work in isolation. The benefit of your intervention depends on the awareness, skills and experience of your staff.
SMART Training and Consultancy can work with you to improve all three areas through training and ongoing consultancy services.
So far SMART Training and Consultancy has delivered training to Childrens homes, Social Services, teachers, probation officers and prison staff on working with young deemed at risk of CSE and SE.
The feedback we receive continually demonstrates that practitioners who have been on our training have been able to improve their practice and better effectively respond to the needs of the young people they work with.
Delivered by trainers with front-line experience of working with those deemed hardest to reach, they not only speak from experience, but are also able to relate findings from research and academic studies.
No glamourising, no nonsense, just a solid practical focus on what is known to work!
Usual course length: 1-2 days
Courses can be tailor-made from the following elements:
- The structures of gangs and organised criminal networks
- Recognising the warning signs and behaviour of young people that are involved in gangs.
- Why and how people get involved in gangs, and possible initiation rites
- The exploitation of girls, and the experience of female gang members
- Warning signs that young people are becoming involved with gangs
- Making interventions and examining the appropriateness of participants’ policies and procedures
- Strategies for helping people exit gangs
- Accessing specialist support and resources
- Understanding how group affiliations work and how this influences a young person’s decision making.
- Understanding how to break gang links and replace feelings of solidarity and gang membership with something else.
- How to work with young people pro-actively and take appropriate action to reduce offending and absconding.
- The skills needed to divert young people with gang affiliations to more appropriate activities and to develop a sense of belonging. Strategies for supporting gang exit.
- What motivational tools are best for practitioners to use?
- Learning from mistakes of the past
All employees or 'Front Line' practitioners who deal with those 'at risk' or suspected of exploitation
Get in touch with us to discuss your needs and get your quote