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Understanding Child Sex Offenders: A Foundation course in Behavioural Analysis
‘Please note that the Foundation Course in Understanding Child Sex Offenders has been renamed as part of our regular review process to better reflect the course aims and objectives, which remain the same. This change does not have an impact on course eligibility for the CEOP Academy.’
Keynote Speaker - Joe Sullivan
A better understanding of the psychology of offending and how child sex offenders operate, can help us to recognise behaviour which indicates abuse is taking place, or is being planned.
By understanding the effects of your own behaviour and use of language, it is possible to engage with child sex offenders to obtain useful intelligence and evidence.
The Foundation Course in Understanding Child Sex Offenders has been specifically designed to develop these skills. It aims to provide a more in depth understanding of sex offenders who abuse children, focusing on the importance of intelligence to inform effective practices when dealing with them.
Superb and scary in equal measure. A bit overwhelming at times but totally justified training. I thought I’d seen most things after 15 years service. Obviously not.
Foundation Course feedback
Benefits to the delegate
At the end of the course delegates will:
- Be able to define serious sexual offending
- Understand the spiral of sexual abuse - a theoretical model for understanding and explaining child sexual abuse
- Understand and identify 'grooming' behaviour
- Be introduced to practical interviewing techniques for child sex offenders
- Have covered issues on offenders who travel outside of the UK to sexually abuse children
- Understand the use of the internet by offenders
- Have explored the issues relating to women who sexually offend against children
Who should attend?
- Professionals who come into contact with child sex offenders in the course of their work
- Police officers involved in interviewing and investigating an allegation or offences where child sex abuse is a factor
- Law enforcement officers / police staff that are responsible for the management of child sex offenders in the community
- Senior investigating officers / Head of Criminal Investigations Departments
- Interview coordinators
- Probation officers and prison officers who are required to work with child sex offenders
- Staff of children’s charities and victim support groups
Course duration: 2 days
- Course dates and locations
- 10th-11th March 2010 - Birmingham - £270
- 14th-15th April 2010 - 'New Venue' SOAS, London - £270
- 25th-26th May 2010 - Manchester - £270
- 8th-9th September 2010 - London - £270
- 12th-13th October 2010 - London - £270
- 18th-19th January 2011 - Manchester - £270
- 8th-9th February 2011 - Birmingham - £270
- 22nd-23rd March 2011 - London - £270
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Cancellation policy
If it is necessary to cancel a booking CEOP require 5 working days notification by email to training@ceop.gov.uk. Failure to notify CEOP within this time will result in full payment being requested.
CEOP appreciate that work commitments can necessitate late alterations, any instance later than 5 working days will be considered by Head of Training at CEOP.