Promoting positive pathways for young people who have exhibited harmful sexual behaviour 24/25

TARGET GROUP

This training is targeted at:

• Professionals in direct contact with children who undertake or contribute to risk assessments and multi-agency meetings including social workers, family support workers, health professionals, schools, police and others who work with children at risk of abuse, neglect and exploitation who work for the London Borough of Sutton.  

Competency level:

• Group Level 2 (regular contact with children, young people and/or parent/carer) or Level 3 (predominantly working with children) or above (including strategic leads), and NHS Inter-Collegiate Standards 2 and above for health professionals.

This is a two day course, attendance is required at both sessions.

AIM

The aims of this session are:

• To raise awareness to help professionals, carers and volunteers understand healthy sexual development.
•  To distinguish healthy sexual development from Harmful Sexual Behaviour (HSB) in children and young people, and when to refer concerns for a risk assessment and interventions.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By attending this course, participants will have:

• An improved knowledge about what is HSB, and what is normal as part of healthy sexual development and how to respond appropriately to address and refer concerns;
• An improved knowledge about the common factors which may contribute to HSB and what to consider when identifying HSB;
• An improved knowledge about the issues related to stigma of children who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour;
• An ability to examine the impact on workers or carers and how to look after your own needs;
• An improved knowledge around the use of tools to identify and respond to HSB and resources
• An improved knowledge around the mechanisms of denial and how to effectively manage barriers to identifying and responding to needs;
• An improved knowledge about how to manage and respond to different types of concerns, risk and immediate risks and the safety planning process;