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: 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.
NSPCC’s Pat Branigan granted Churchill Fellowship to combat child sexual abuse
As part of his fellowship, Pat will be visiting the USA to explore public health approaches to combating child sexual abuse, with the aim of using his findings to develop a new public health framework for all CSA cases in the UK.
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.
Podcast: preventing the sexual abuse of disabled children
We explore parents’ and carers’ views about working with schools to protect disabled children from sexual abuse, and, about teaching relationships and sex education.
Podcast: what is the Underwear Rule?
This episode explains what the Underwear Rule is and how you can use our teaching resources to help you keep children safe from sexual abuse.
Contextual safeguarding: what is it and why does it matter?
What is contextual safeguarding? And what does it mean for voluntary and community groups? Cate Meredith explores the issues and how you can keep children safe.