Our course is delivered by experts with a wealth of knowledge and first-hand experience in their fields. Equip yourself with new approaches to improve how to safeguard children at risk and holistically support their affected families.
Course learning outcomes
- Understand the different forms of child exploitation
- Explore the different methods of grooming, the impact this can have on children’s lives and the potential signs to be aware of
- Enhance your knowledge of key legislation, policy, national approaches and good practice
- Understand how trauma can impact memory, emotions and behaviour and how to adapt your support to meet the needs of families who have experienced trauma
- Learn how contextual safeguarding can increase the scope and success of disruption tactics available to professionals
- Understand the impact of child exploitation on families, and how to work along families to increase your capacity to safeguard children
Course description
Child Criminal exploitation, trafficking and modern day slavery
Explore current legislation and approaches to tackling child criminal exploitation. Introduction to the benefit of trauma-informed practice, contextual safeguarding and the negative impact of victim blaming. Explore how various disruption tactics can be used to safeguard children at risk and listen to lived experiences from people involved in CCE.
Criminalisation (including County lines)
Understand how children are being criminally exploited, the methods offenders use to groom, the characteristics of county lines operations, how to identify signs of child criminalisation and safeguarding guidance.
Discount available for multiple bookings. You can also commission us to run the course in your workplace if you have a large number of staff wishing to attend. Please get in touch to find out more.
Course Delivery
Our ACE course will be accessed by learners online, streamed live, with the ability to watch and interact with our live trainers and other course participants. It will be a blended style of learning, with the same content and structure as our traditional face to face course. Our guest speakers will also be on hand in each module for live Q and As. We are dedicated to ensuring the experience for our learners continues to be of the highest standard.
Who is this course for?
All practitioners with experience of working with people affected by child exploitation or who are looking to move into this area from a single specialism. This includes but is not limited to:
• Staff working within or alongside child exploitation multi-agency hubs
• Social workers
• Family intervention officer, family support worker, troubled family worker
• Independent and voluntary sector CSE workers
• Missing from home specialist
• Police community support officer and police constables with a CSE specialism
• Care home workers
• Foster carers
