Multi Agency Practice Weeks

Monday 13th October 2025

Webinar: The Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway

Time: 9.30-11.am

Microsoft teams - click here to book 

Practice Week Opening Webinar:
Suzanne Jacobs from the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse (CSA Centre) will open the practice week by presenting their evidence-based Response Pathway and other resources. She will also discuss the challenges of working with child sexual abuse and how professionals can respond effectively.

Who Should Attend:
All practitioners, as well as those in senior and strategic roles, are encouraged to join.

About the CSA Centre:
Funded by the Home Office and hosted by Barnardo’s, the CSA Centre is a multi-disciplinary team aiming to reduce the impact of child sexual abuse through improved responses. They collaborate with partners across academia, local authorities, health, education, police, and the voluntary sector.

Response Pathway Overview:
This step-by-step guide helps professionals respond to child sexual abuse by focusing on children's needs, feelings, and hopes. It supports identification, safeguarding, and criminal justice responses, empowering professionals to understand both what to do and how to do it.

Useful links below - 

What you need to know about child sexual abuse - CSA Centre

Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway 

Tuesday 14th October 2025

Free e-learning - AM

The Centre of Excellence are providing a free e-learning module focusing on identifying and responding to intrafamilial child sexual abuse. The CSA Centre’s first eLearning course, Identifying and responding to intrafamilial child sexual abuse, takes just 90 minutes to complete, is entirely free and consists of three engaging modules, with interactive tasks, video explainers and a final assessment. It’s designed for professionals at all stages of their career; for those new to safeguarding, or as a helpful refresher.

Access the training here

If you access this free module, please notify Hannah.Ransome@oldham.gov.uk so we can keep a record of attendance. 

Webinar: Communicating with children and young people (PM)

Time: 2pm - 3pm

Microsoft teams - click here to book

Our colleagues from children’s social care will be presenting a webinar that focuses on communicating with children. Developing child-centred communication skills can improve the quality of everyday interactions with children and young people. This session does NOT look specifically at communicating with children subjected to sexual abuse but offer general key skills, guides and practical ideas that support child centred communication skills across the development spectrum. It is suitable for those who want to either extend their knowledge and skill set around communicating with children or as a refresher.

Communicating with parents and carers 

What you need to know about child sexual abuse 

Communication with Children - Education Professionals 

Communicating with Children

Key messages from research on looked-after children and child sexual abuse 

Wednesday 15th October 2025

Webinar: Responding effectively to sibling sexual behaviour (AM)

Time: 10.30am - 11.30am

Click here to book

Child sexual abuse takes many forms, but research suggests that a significant amount of sexual abuse is carried out by people known to the child – which can include by brothers and sisters. This free one-hour webinar aims to help professionals negotiate the complexities raised by these sexual behaviours, using our Sibling sexual behaviour practice resource.

This one-hour webinar introduces professionals to the CSA Centre’s Sibling sexual abuse and behaviour CSA Centre guide, and aims to give professionals working with children the knowledge and confidence to act when they are concerned about a child. The guide is designed to give professionals confidence that, through the work they do, the therapeutic goal of families healing and moving forward is possible.

Safety planning in education: A guide for professionals supporting children following incidents of harmful sexual behaviour

Knowledge check 

Click the following link to complete a short knowledge check - Knowledge check 

Of these arrests, many individuals will have been likely to have children of their own or in their wider family. Research shows that compared with those convicted of other forms of sexual offending, people who access child sexual abuse material are more likely to be married and have children.

Managing risk and trauma after online sexual offending 

Thursday 16th October 2025

Webinar: St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) - (AM)

Time: 10am-11am

Microsoft teams - click here to book

St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) provides forensic, medical, practical, and emotional support services. Nicola Kharadi, Directorate Manager, will present a webinar focusing on the coordinated services offered to children and young people.

Child Sexual Abuse involves coercing or enticing a child into sexual activities, which may include:

• Physical contact: such as rape, oral sex, masturbation, kissing, or touching.
• Non-contact activities: including exposure to sexual images, watching sexual acts, grooming, or inappropriate sexual behavior.

Abuse can occur online or offline and may be perpetrated by adults, women, or other children.

Webinar: I wanted them all to notice (PM)

Time: 1pm - 1.30pm

Microsoft teams - click here to book

Louise Hamer, Named Nurse for Safeguarding, will be delivering a webinar titled “I Wanted Them All to Notice”. This webinar focuses on reflections for the Health System in recognising and responding to indicators of child sexual abuse within the family environment.  As with all sessions during Practice Week, this webinar is designed for a multi-agency audience.

The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel - I wanted them all to notice 

Signs and indicators of child sexual abuse - CSA Centre

Supporting parents and carers - CSA Centre

Supporting parents and carers: A guide for those working with families affected by child sexual abuse

Friday 17th October 2025

The REIGN Collective- Face to face training

Venue: Oldham College

Time: 10am - 2pm (9.30am for arrival and registration)

Refreshments will be provided

This course is free to attend however see below - 

*Please ensure you familiarise yourself with details of the Oldham Safeguarding Children Partnership Charging Policy . This is a commissioned course and there will be a charge for non-attendance. 

REIGN’s bespoke training workshops are for professionals wishing to gain insight into child sexual abuse and exploitation from the perspective of survivors.

Their facilitators are qualified professionals either working or researching in the fields of education, youth work, counselling, or health and social care. They take a unique approach to our training, combining lived experience with up-to-date research and developments in CSE, trauma, and safeguarding. The training will cover

• Legal definitions and key terminology
• Recognising signs and challenging stereotypes
• Myths and misconceptions about sexual abuse
• Barriers to support and long-term effects of CSE/A
• Best practice examples and case studies
• A live Q&A with survivors for deeper engagement

To apply for a place please email OSCPtraining@oldham.gov.uk 

Closing date for applications is 26th September. After the closing date, if you have been allocated a place on the requested course, you will receive a full confirmation via e-mail.

If you have previously attended The REIGN Collective training on 17 September, please do not apply for this session.

If you, or someone you know, has concerns of child sexual abuse there are places and people who can help. Find a local support service using the search bar below.

Get Support - CSA Centre