Course: Thinking the Unthinkable: Multiagency Responses to Working with Child Sexual Abuse (Face-to-Face)
Date: 14 October 2025 — 9.30am-4pm
Trainer: The Lighthouse
Location: Face-to-Face — Crowndale Centre, 218 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1BD (Training Room 5)
Course Description:
This one-day event will examine national and local prevalence of child sexual abuse. Offering practical guidance, the course will support you to develop best practice in recognising and responding to children who have been sexually abused.
Course Objectives:
— To look at the national and local learning from practice reviews into child sexual abuse.
— Understanding prevalence and research.
— To inform practitioners around identifying signs and indicators of child sexual abuse and understanding the barriers to children disclosing abuse.
— Examining the investigation process and Camden’s Multi-Agency Response Pathways to child sexual abuse: Prevent, identify, support, disrupt and enforce.
— How to respond to disclosures and understanding language, stages of development, stigma and shame.
— Multidisciplinary network support in the child’s and carers recovery from trauma.
— To understand the Lighthouse multidisciplinary recovery service in Camden. Collaboration with the Lighthouse Multidisciplinary recovery service to support best outcomes for Camden children.
Target Audience:
This event is suitable for professionals in Working Together Groups.
The CSCP will be delivering both face-to-face and virtual safeguarding training. Please ensure that you have read the course description, so you are clear on the delivery method for the course you have booked. Further details will be shared with you closer to the course date.
— Delegates need to register for a CSCP training account.
— Apply to join the course.
— An automated confirmation email will be received if your application is successful.
— Further details will be shared before the course date including the location of the course.
— Complete the three-stage evaluation which delegates will receive by email.
If the session you are attending is virtual:
— Please make sure you can access Microsoft Teams or Zoom.
— There is an expectation that all delegates engage and fully participate in the sessions and always have their camera on.
— Keep questions general, and avoid giving any information that could be used to identify a child or family.
— Use headphones or a headset and always keep your speaker on mute if you’re not speaking.
— Don’t record any of the online conversation.
— Make sure other people you live with, especially children, are not in the room and cannot overhear sensitive information.
— Don’t use any other devices while you’re taking part.
— Join on laptop or PC for a better experience.
Failure of any of the above will result in the delegate not receiving their certificate of accreditation.
