Have your say! Help strengthen Centre of Sexual Abuse (CSA) practice in Solihull.

September 29, 2025

On behalf of Solihull Domestic Abuse/ Sexual Abuse Board and Solihull Safeguarding Children Partnership we are working together to implement the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse response pathway into the West Midlands multi-agency safeguarding  procedures, and embed it in Solihull multi-agency practice, to create a consistent approach for any children who are experiencing any type of sexual abuse.

This is a start of a journey, and if you work or volunteer in Solihull, we would value your involvement and invite you to complete this survey, designed to understand your confidence and experience when recognising and responding to child sexual abuse.

Your responses are confidential and will be used to guide decisions to achieve a more timely, sensitive, and coherent multi-agency response to child sexual abuse. The survey is available here or by scanning the QR code above.

More FREE training from the CSA Centre!

So far in 2025, over 1000 professionals across the Wider West Midlands Regional have attended webinars or training delivered by the CSA Centre as part of our ongoing work with them to strengthen our response to Child Sexual Abuse. The centre has kindly offered to deliver a further 4 webinars looking at specific topics such as ‘Harmful Sexual Behaviours in Online Contexts’. Please do take advantage of the opportunity to book onto this training, for more information and to book your place, click here.

This week the CSA have published their new guide Developing your strategic response to child sexual abuse for safeguarding children partnerships to build an effective, evidence-based strategy covering each part of their response to child sexual abuse. The guide is designed for all those working with local and regional safeguarding children partnerships and covers each level of response to all forms of child sexual abuse – from top-level governance and accountability, to an effective action plan that professionals everywhere, in each agency, can easily follow.

SSCP Training

There are still spaces on the following FREE SSCP training courses:

Module 9 – Sexual Abuse: Impact on child development This module has been updated to follow the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse’s response pathway for intra-familial sexual abuse, harmful sexual behaviour by children, including siblings, extra-familial sexual abuse and sexual abuse in an online context, including abuse related to imagery. This course will be taking place on 15/10/25 09:30-16:30 and 24/02/26 09:30-16:30 at Solihull Council House. To book your place, please click here