Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Awareness Training

Grooming is when someone builds a relationship, trust and emotional connection with a child or young person so they can manipulate, exploit and abuse them.

Child Sexual Exploitation is when a child is involved in sexual touching occurring between an adult and a child; between children with a significant age difference (3 years or more) or if children are different developmentally or even size-wise. Sexual exploitation does not necessarily involve touching, force or pain; if an adult engages in any sexual behaviour (looking, showing or touching) with a child to meet the adult’s sexual needs or interest, it is sexual exploitation.

Candidates going through this course learn how to assess risk, respond to concerns and share information in a way that isn’t more damaging to the child in question. Candidates will also become more aware of sexual exploitation in children and how they can respond after the abuse, which can be key to identifying those in these situations.

Anyone dealing with the safeguarding of children should be able to identify the signs of abuse and should know how to react to it, in order to prevent further abuse and its impact on the child.