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