Thames Valley workers to get essential child protection training

25 January 2011

70 people who work with children and families across Thames Valley will complete a child protection training day in Lane End on Thursday (January 27).

The Stop it Now! UK and Ireland event, hosted in association with the Thames Valley Partnership, will bring together representatives from various statutory, private and voluntary organisations who have contact with children or families or deal with child protection issues. Police, health, education, child care and probation workers will be joined by those from housing associations and children's charities for the one day event.

Entitled 'Preventing Child Sexual Abuse – Making it Everybody's Business', the event aims to explore some of today's key issues surrounding child sexual abuse and will feature workshops conducted by specialist staff from child protection charity, the Lucy Faithfull Foundation. Workshops will cover subjects including:- female sexual abusers; how the internet is used as part of sexually abusive behaviour; children who display worrying sexual behaviour and where agencies and individuals roles fit in preventing abuse and protecting children.

Stop it Now! UK and Ireland works hard to engage with statutory, private and voluntary sector workers as well as parents, carers and other members of the public. The campaign believes that child sexual abuse is preventable, not inevitable.

Director of Stop it Now!, Donald Findlater said: "Preventing child sexual abuse is not just the job of one agency or organisation. We all need to be involved in protecting children and to do that we need knowledge around the issues and the confidence to take action when needed. By knowing what issues are, where the risks lie and how abusers operate we can recognise the signs and take action."

The Stop it Now! campaign operates a free phone confidential helpline – 0808 1000 900 – which people can call for advice and support in relation to child sexual abuse issues.

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