By understanding how to talk about sexual abuse, professionals can address concerns earlier, work effectively with children and families and bring words to the silence around child sexual abuse.
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Podcast: The work of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
Discover how learning from the work of the Panel, and the reports they publish, can lead to improvements in safeguarding practice. You'll hear two members of the Panel discuss two reports published at the end of 2024: a national review into child sexual abuse within the family environment and their annual report.
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Mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse
What are the latest government plans for a mandatory duty in England to report known or suspected child sexual abuse?
Podcast: impact on delivering children’s services during lockdown
Social distancing has made it difficult for practitioners to carry out their regular check-ins with children and families. How have they responded to these challenges to ensure needs are still met?
Podcast: impact of coronavirus on school staff and pupils
Listen to an account of how teachers delivered and are continuing to deliver school services to pupils since the lockdown in March 2020.
Podcast: returning to school post-lockdown
Find out how schools and academies have been affected by coronavirus and how they’ve responded during and after the lockdown.
Podcast: antenatal and postnatal care during COVID-19
Find out how antenatal and postnatal services have adapted in response to coronavirus (COVID-19) to continue to support parents before, during and after pregnancy.
Podcast: infants and child development
Hear us discuss our learning from case reviews briefing on infants, which highlights the challenges faced by practitioners and social workers and the steps that can be taken to keep infants safe.
Podcast: preventing harmful sexual behaviour
Join us in the final episode of our harmful sexual behaviour series to find out how you can prevent and manage incidents in your school, academy or college.
Podcast: assessing sexualised behaviour
Get support on managing and assessing sexualised behaviour in schools and understand when to make a referral to a specialist service.
Podcast: harmful sexual behaviour in schools
Listen to the first part of our series on supporting those who have experienced or displayed harmful sexual behaviour in schools and other educational settings.
Podcast: supporting young people with learning disabilities
Hear about our Love Life resources aimed at young people with special educational needs and learning disabilities.
Podcast: Steps to Safety programme
Hear about our early-intervention programme for families living with domestic abuse and what we’ve learnt from delivering our service.