What Training We Offer

CPD Accredited Professional Training

Street Teams provides CPD-accredited training for professionals working with children, young people, and adults. Our training equips staff, educators, and frontline practitioners with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to recognise, respond to, and reduce exploitation and other risks outside the home.

Our courses combine practical guidance, evidence-based approaches, and insights from our contextual safeguarding work to support professionals in creating safer environments, strengthening protective networks, and improving outcomes for children and families.

Available Training Courses

  • Exploitation: An OverviewBasic Training
    Gain a foundational understanding of exploitation, how it occurs, and the signs to look out for in children, young people, and young adults.

  • Understanding, Recognising and Responding to ExploitationAdvanced Training
    A comprehensive, in-depth course covering identification, risk assessment, and effective responses to exploitation across different settings.

  • Behind the Screen: What Are Children Exposed to Online? 
    Explore the risks children and young people face online, including grooming, exploitation, and harmful influences, and learn practical strategies to safeguard them.

  • Safeguarding – Extra Familial HarmExploitation Reduction & Contextual Approach
    Learn how to understand and address harms outside the home using a contextual safeguarding framework, reducing the likelihood of exploitation and other risks.

  • Understanding Adolescent PressuresPeer Pressure, Environments, Exposure, and Grooming 
    Examine the social, peer, and environmental pressures on adolescents, and develop strategies to support young people safely in schools, communities, and services.

Why Choose Street Teams Training?

  • All courses are CPD-accredited, providing professional development hours and certification.

  • Delivered by experienced practitioners with frontline expertise in early intervention, safeguarding, and exploitation reduction.

  • Grounded in real-world examples and case studies, linking theory to practical application.

  • Supports professionals to improve early identification, strengthen safeguarding practice, and reduce risks outside the home.

Booking and Enquiries

For course schedules and pricing please contact us. 

Professional Training

Child Sexual Exploitation

Learning outcomes

  • To understand Child Sexual Exploitation – male & female.
  • Current CSE definition.
  • Victim Blaming.
  • To understand the grooming process.
  • Warning signs (indicators)
  • Models of CSE
  • Vulnerability factors.
  • To understand connected issues, Trauma & Stockholm.
  • Connected issues – Social Media, Pornography, Internet.
  • Disruption.
  • Safeguarding & Referrals
  • How to report

Child Criminal Exploitation

Learning Outcomes

  • Wider exploitation with a focus on criminal exploitation children
  • County Lines” and the grooming process, including terminology
  • Understanding of the real picture of County Lines, Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) &
    Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE), Gangs, OCG’s etc
  • Increased recognition and understanding of vulnerabilities faced by children,
    young people and vulnerable adults
  • Disruption tools and the use of NRM legislation
  • The connection of Social Media & Music
  • How to engage young people who have been groomed for County Lines (Counter Narratives)
  • How to report

Briefings for Parents on Child Exploitation (2/3 hours)

  • What is CSE?
  • What is CCE?
  • What is County Lines?
  • How To Keep Your Child Safe Online
  • How are children groomed for this?
  • What are the warning signs
  • Your role as parents/carers

Working with Exploited Young People who are in transition to adulthood

Learning outcomes

  • To understand the key concepts of transition
  • Contextual Safeguarding
  • Adultification
  • Increased knowledge of current exploitation factors
  • Grooming styles and types
Street Teams
1 Butts Street
Walsall
West Midlands WS4 2BJ
Tel: 01922 621 208
admin@street-teams.org

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