Multi Agency Sexual Offending Awareness
NOTE: Sexual Offenders in the Family is an optional second day to this course
This course aims to enable workers to protect children and young people more effectively by gaining knowledge about the dynamics of abuse.
Professionals, and their managers, working with children and young people need to have an awareness of the risks posed by sexual offenders.
The course will provide an opportunity for workers to reflect on the impact of the work on themselves and the working practices of their organisations. The emphasis will be on the characteristics of sexual offenders, the process by which they offend and the need for effective therapeutic intervention.
Course content:
- Prevalence of sexual abuse
- Who are the sexual offenders?
- Patterns and processes of offending
- Convicted and alleged offenders – what represents a concern
- Sex offenders in the workplace
- Models of risk assessment
- Therapeutic interventions