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Alter UK offers industry-leading child protection awareness training courses and workshops for parents, teachers, educators, carers, sporting groups and anyone who supports or works with children. From schools in Wolverhampton to care homes in Birmingham, our sexual abuse prevention courses provide in-depth information on how to protect your children and those in your care, including tips on responding to disclosures. We offer education and training: personal safety education programs for children, industry-leading child protection training courses for educators and practitioners, and awareness courses for parents, carers, sporting groups and anyone who supports or works with children.

Our trusted online training courses aim to increase awareness of the prevalence, impacts and causes of child sexual abuse.

Developed by our in-house team of professionals from the fields of psychology, social work, and education, the knowledge Alter UK imparts is a direct result of decades of holistic service delivery tackling the issues surrounding child abuse, neglect, sexual assault, and exploitation.

If you would like to find out more about our sexual abuse prevention training for educators, teachers, carers, and parents, please don’t hesitate to contact the team at Alter UK today. Working with clients across the Midlands, we offer a range of child protection workshops in-person and online covering a range of subjects such as peer-to-peer exploitation, grooming, and online safeguarding and protection. Together, we can work to protect youth and create a positive difference in schools and care homes for children of all ages.

*Please refer below for available training courses. Price for a single training session is £850 per group of up to 10 people +VAT.

You will receive downloadable resources and Alter UK Certificate of Completion.

An Introduction to Child Protection for Educators (Online)

This course is the first in a series of eLearning modules to better equip educators with the knowledge and understanding to support children and young people in their care. Ideal for Primary and Secondary teachers, and all staff working within a school environment.

This course is also ideal as an introductory module for organisations looking to enhance their child protection learning programs or meet regulatory standards.

Main points of training:
Prevalence of abuse, how to recognise abuse, why abuse occurs, responding to disclosures, responding to peer harm, supporting children.

Child Protection outside of School hours (Online)

Tailored specifically for educators in Outside of School Hours Care, this course contains information on what to look for and what to do when working with children who may be at risk or have been harmed. It outlines your roles and responsibilities to identify and respond to every child at risk of abuse or neglect.

You will learn about

· Module 1: What is child abuse

· Module 2: What to look for

· Module 3: What to do

· Module 4: How to prevent

Keeping children safe in sports (Online)

This program has tailored resources to keep children and adolescence safe in sport, and looks beyond what to do when abuse is suspected, and emphasizes expectations for adults interacting with children in sport, encourages bringing forward any concerns of misconduct towards children, and helps organizations develop policies that enable coaches and volunteers to uphold standards of conduct that protection children and youth participating in sport. Online training, paired with the associated resources, addresses the importance of understanding boundaries, sexual misconduct, and reporting inappropriate behaviour, as well as the coach-athlete relationship and guidelines for interactions between adults and athletes.

Ideal for Sports Organizations, Coaches, and Parents/Guardians

Peer Exploitation aka Sextortion (In person training/assemblies)

This training course offer practical direction for supporting youth when a sexual image or video has been created and shared with peers, how to reduce the negative impact on the teen, and guidance that may limit the circulation of the sexual image or video. While these guidelines are a useful intervention tool during a self/peer exploitation incident, they can also be utilized to get the conversation started with youth about risks associated with sexting, as well as where they can turn to if they, or a friend, find themselves in need of help.

My buddy - My best friend (In person training)

This is a personal safety initiative that teaches children ages 5 to 8 about one of the most important safety habits—the buddy system. This training course helps educators and parents teach children the valuable lesson of safety in numbers and always having another person - a buddy - accompany them when they are travelling from one place to another. Through the various activities, including songs and games, children learn who can be a buddy, when to bring a buddy, and that the Buddy System is something that should be an everyday safety habit.

When children learn and adopt this very important habit, they reduce their vulnerability to victimization, and increase their personal safety.

Online Grooming (In person training/assemblies)

With growing use of technology it’s now easier than ever to exploit and abuse vulnerable pupils online. This online training is for individuals who work with children, either through employment or on a volunteer basis. This training course helps to recognize the importance of adhering to an employer’s child protections policies, as well as understand child sexual abuse and the grooming process.

This training course consists of 6 different modules that address the following:

the definition of child sexual abuse
the grooming process
handling disclosures of child sexual abuse
the impact of child sexual abuse
creating a Child Protection Code of Conduct for your organization
policies and procedures to use to protect children in your organization

From a childhood sexual abuse to a Homelessness and/or Sex worker (In person)

In this training the issue focuses on the intersection between sexual victimization and homeless youth, brief reviews research regarding the involvement of unaccompanied, homeless youth in various types of sexual exploitation including survival sex and recruitment into the commercial sex industry and will recommend a series of programmatic responses to meet their needs, and provides an overview of research on this topic area. The issue addresses the need for early intervention and provides participants with tips on identifying signs of sexual trauma in children as well as when and how to intervene.

Right way to a healthy sexual development (Online)

This course examines several strategies for talking to young children about sexual development and the expression of sexuality. Provides information and suggestions for developing a sexuality education plan and explores the role of the home and the school in sexual education. Parents examine what naturally happens to young adolescents during their sexual growth and development and explore their own beliefs and values about sexual information and development. Strategies for communication are discussed to help parents gain confidence in talking about sexual development and sex with their young adolescents.

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Working together to stop child sexual abuse and exploitation

With decades of combined experience working with schools and care homes across the Midlands, the team at Alter UK is dedicated to empowering children with safety skills and training adults in child safety in order to nurture child-safe cultures within our communities.

Whether you’re looking for an online training course for online protection and safeguarding within a care home environment or in-person child protection workshops for educators and teachers, we can help.

Working with individuals and organisations in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, we are passionate about sharing ideas of how to protect children from sexual predators, protect youth, and create a positive difference in schools and care homes for children of all ages.