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CATS Continuous Professional Development training on Child Internet Safety

CATS first Child Internet Abuse and Safety took place in Central London on 16 June 2010. It was a generic one-day course for professionals working within the child protection arena, including children's services, counsellors and therapists, police and the courts, aimed at enabling them to discover how the internet and mobile phone technology are used by online sex offenders and how to best identify young victims' vulnerabilities for preventative messages and actions. The course explored issues around internet and mobile phone abuse from both offenders and victims' perspective and will equip participants with a clear understanding of how new technologies are used by children and young people, including their online risk taking behaviour, and how paedophiles use the internet to source, groom and target children. The course also covered the newly emerging issue of peer-to-peer cyber-bullying.

Download course flyer for more details.

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Tailor-made training courses and workshops:

Please note that in addition to generic one-day open-booking courses, we also offer courses and workshops that are tailor-made to specific requirements of organisation or agency. All courses and workshops are run by experts with long experience in the field of Child Protection and Internet Policing. For more information or to talk to us about arranging in-house training contact CATS@rhul.ac.uk

 

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Child Internet Safety events

January 2010: A Continuous Professional Development training event was held on 22 January 2010 for police and social services. The event aimed to present CATS CPD training in the Internet abuse area focusing upon policing the Internet and working with young victims of Internet abuse. Presentations were made by Jon Taylor (Metropolitan Police High Technology Crime Unit) and Tink Palmer (Marie Collins Foundation).

March 2010: CATS Internet Safety awareness even to be held at the House of Lords (attendance by invitation only)

For more details or to arrange training on Child Internet Abuse contact CATS@rhul.ac.uk

 

CATS Training - general information

The CATS centre offers workshops and short weekly training courses on a wide range of issues around abuse and trauma. The range covers abuse in different age groups and settings, and covers victims, perpetrators and legal issues. The centre is supported by both universities – Royal Holloway, University of London, and Kingston University - for the development of knowledge exchange between research and practice. Our innovative approach takes high level of expertise from both universities, as well as from a range of expert partners nationally and internationally, to generate courses of high quality, which are amenable to frequent updating as research knowledge, policy and law change. Our approach is multi-disciplinary and academically rigorous, but with a view to practical application and to the needs and constraints of practitioners to increase their professional development.

Issues covered:

• Child & family abuse
• Domestic violence
• Bullying & victimisation in different contexts
• Stranger abuse
• Internet abuse & Internet safety
• Psychological disorder related to abuse and trauma
• Social policy in relation to abuse issues
• Evaluating social and police services
• Conducting assessments with children, teenagers and adults and Achieving Best Practice in Interviewing

Practice Applications
Our courses cover issues of Assessment around abuse, trauma and risk issues; Research updates on abuse and trauma issues, including understanding conceptual and causal models of risk and resilience; Implications for practice and knowledge exchange; Basic principles of research and how to evaluate services in relation to assessment and evidence-based practice.

Who are CATS courses suitable for?
Our courses and workshops are directed towards criminal justice workers (police, probation, youth offending), social workers (child protection; ‘looked after’ services; family support services) and psychologists (clinicians in child and adolescent mental health and adult services) and workers in the legal professions.

Individualised provision of courses
Coherent ‘menu’ of courses can be provided singly or in any combination to services on site, or held at Central London university premises

For further information please contact Prof Julia Davidson j.davidson@kingston.ac.uk

or Prof Antonia Bifulco a.bifulco@rhul.ac.uk

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