Assessing the Protective Skills of Mothers, Partners, and Adult Carers (Lucy Faithfull Foundation)

Assessing the Protective Skills of Mothers, Partners, and Adult Carers

Delivered by The Lucy Faithfull Foundation

Audience: All Children's Services Staff

Working with non offending partners of child sexual offenders is a crucial element of child protection. In making decisions about a child’s safety, we need to consider the carer’s ability to protect the child and assess their safety in the longer term.

The training…

• Discusses different patterns and styles of sexual offending against children.
• Helps understand a carer’s responses during abuse and after disclosure.
• Developing understanding of the often difficult context for non-abusing parents / carers and the effect of denial, both in people who have sexually abused a child, and carers.
• Helps participants gain the skills to assess a carer’s strengths and areas for development in relation to a child’s future protection, considering current sexual abuse models.
• Sets out a framework for assessing a carer’s protective skills, knowledge, strengths and resilience.
• Discusses the types of intervention the partner / carer may need.
• Discusses the impact of the person who has sexually abused a child on the mother/child relationship.
• Help participants consider their own beliefs and responses when assessing non abusing parents.