Understanding Child Sexual Abuse (CSAA)

The Plymouth Safeguarding Children Board (PSCB) offers a range of up-to-date statutory training in areas of Best Practice concerning Safeguarding Children and Child Protection. All courses are inter-agency, offering participants the opportunity to meet practitioners and managers from a variety of agencies, to better understand the essential inter-agency nature of all child protection work in Plymouth.

Understanding Child Protection (CPF), is the gateway course to all PSCB training and learning opportunities. Once completed, successful participants can access all other PSCB courses including Understanding Child Sexual Abuse (CSAA).

This course offers detailed consideration of the child protection issues raised by child sexual abuse, for all workers in any agencies accessed by children, young people and/or their parents and families, practitioners across all sectors, and their managers. The programme is delivered by the specialist practitioners from the PSCB, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and Devon and Cornwall Police.

The course details can be downloaded below:

Please see our safeguarding, learning and development page which provides the background information to the training we offer. The training course page gives full details of other courses available and the PSCB training calendar.

To check availability of courses please check the PSCB training calendar; a copy can be downloaded from the training course page. If you want to apply for this course, please fill in our application form below.

Updated 20 May 2012