CCPAS - Training

CCPAS provides a wide variety of training resources designed to help you improve the design, management and implementation of your safeguarding policies.
We are committed to ensuring:

Churches and organisations are safer places for children and adults
Leaders respond appropriately when there are possible concerns of abuse
High quality, affordable training that is accessible to all
A sensitive response offering follow-up advice and support where needed

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Our training resources include

Facing the Unthinkable

CCPAS has run about 2,000 'Facing the Unthinkable' (FTU) seminars throughout the UK over the past 20 years. They are specially designed for churches and other organisations working with children and young people.

They aim to achieve a greater understanding of abuse. This includes where it happens and how it can be prevented by adopting safer working practices. The ultimate aim is to develop a more confident approach to working with children and young people.

Click here for more details, including forthcoming seminar places and dates and how to book a place at a seminar near you.

Click here to download information on how to host an event in your church or group (PDF format).

Click here for DVD Distance learning material to enable you to run an extended version of the FTU training in your own church or group over a number of sessions or days.

Safe and Secure - Training DVD

This is a 50 minute docu-drama style presentation. It contrasts two cases of abuse, one of which was handled badly and the other well. It has been translated into 16 languages, British Sign Language and English subtitles, and presents CCPAS’s 10 principles of safeguarding in clear, logical steps.

We think it is particularly relevant to church trustees, leaders and those adults for whom full safeguarding training is not needed. It would also provide a useful introduction to new youth workers before they experience a live FTU seminar or the distance learning programme or help you review your policies and procedures.

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Kids Are Safe Here DVD

This short movie is designed to inform members of your congregation and visitors about your procedures. It explains in a positive way that you have a policy, the role of the safeguarding co-ordinator and how everyone can play their part to ensure that children (and vulnerable adults) are safe.

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DVD-based 'Advanced' Training

Three one-day, DVD based, courses which we recommend following the basic training. Each of these DVD sets is based on a day conference. Follow up support and certificates of successful completion.

‘Special Children, Special Needs’.
This DVD set will help churches respond to children with disabilities and special needs in practical and inclusive ways.

Sessions include how to make church welcoming, advice on specific disabilities and special needs, the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act and a church that has tackled the issues.

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Supporting Offenders Safely
Every church needs to know how best to support those who could pose a risk to children. This is a fundamental, non-negotiable, part of good child protection.

Supporting Offenders Safely (SOS) is a twin DVD set that trains churches and other groups in the supervision and pastoral care of sex offenders. It is based on the accounts of survivors and perpetrators of abuse, in order to give participants a greater understanding of sex offender behaviour. SOS benefits churches and others by helping them plan effective prevention, support and supervision.

The DVD set necessarily contains sexually-explicit material. It should not therefore be shown to under 18s.

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Sharing the Load
Sharing the Load is a pastoral care distance learning pack enabling churches and organisations to offer help and support to all those affected by abuse.

The DVD includes effective models for recovery. It also shows the personal testimonies of an adult survivor, partners, parents and a young person. They all recount their experiences from their own very different perspectives.

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ITQ e-safety (Internet Safety Award)

This new, very practical course and qualification in internet safety is fully accredited by the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA). Taken entirely on-line, it is designed to enable safe, legal use of the internet. The course is designed for anyone who uses the internet, but especially church ministers, youth workers and teachers. It comprises five sections: Viruses, Malicious software, Other internet threats, Internet defences and the Legal Aspects of Internet Use. Completing the course successfully leads to the ‘ITQ e-safety’ qualification. This is a single National Unit at SCQF Level 4 (Intermediate 1) supported by the course handbook ‘Internet Safety’ available from our online shop.

For more information about the course, or to enrol, click here.

Bespoke/Specialist courses for individual churches or organisations (or closed groups)

For needs which are not covered by the above, CCPAS can develop tailor-made courses for churches, faith groups or other organisations in statutory, independent and voluntary sectors. This involves devising training programmes to meet identified needs, using one or two trainers.

Alternatively the course may be one of our specialist training events such as the safeguarding awareness courses for new and emerging African churches (or others new to the UK), training for cathedral staff, street pastors, schools etc.

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