Intervention and prevention of the sexual abuse of youngsters and younger folks and people displaying dangerous sexual behaviour. Obligatory Reporting – What’s subsequent?

For delegates solely

Sexual abuse throughout companies – Thursday 12 September

Messages from the SWAAY Group and Residential companies on the intervention wants of younger folks with complicated wants liable for dangerous sexual behaviour – Thursday 19 September
Creating safer environments for youngsters and younger folks: some insights from principle and apply – Thursday 26 September
Rising considerations about TACSA – Tech-Assisted Baby Sexual Abuse – Thursday 3 October

Sexual abuse throughout companies
Dr. Arnon Bentovim
This presentation will introduce the collection of seminars, updating the altering image of the sexual abuse of youngsters and younger folks. This can embrace present definitions and patterns of sexual abuse and exploitation and related adversity, and the prevalence in household and neighborhood contexts. Youngsters and younger individuals who expertise youngster sexual abuse and exploitation undergo overlapping co-morbid psychological well being responses, i.e. combos of traumatic signs, anxiousness and melancholy, and dangers of creating sexually dangerous behaviour. Present definitions of sexual abuse embrace sexual abuse within the household and neighborhood, sexual exploitation the place a person or group takes benefit of an imbalance of energy to coerce, manipulate or deceive a baby or younger individual beneath the age of 18 into sexual actions, Expertise has created new types of sexual abuse, e.g. on-line grooming when adults or older youth use on-line communication to attract minors into sexual relationships, Picture primarily based sexual abuse contains sexual photographs taken, made or shared with out consent.. Sextortion means attempting to extort cash or sexual photographs utilizing the specter of disseminating obtained photographs. Current research have indicated a putting rise in prevalence when on line sexual abuse is included The biggest unbiased contribution to the general mixed improve had been non-consensual picture sharing with an impermissibly older grownup companion. This current CSA evaluation of companies by the Skilled Centre will likely be outlined and an introduction to intervention – C&FT ‘Information to Working with Baby Sexual Abuse.

Key studying takeways

1. This presentation will present an outline of present types of sexual abuse and can present an outline of the 4 seminars.
2. Present definitions will likely be reviewed together with the best way Expertise has created new types of sexual abuse.
3. An appreciation of the traumatic influence of sexual abuse and the overlapping co-morbid psychological well being impacts – introducing a Modular method to intervention

Messages from the SWAAY Group and Residential companies on the intervention wants of younger folks with complicated wants liable for dangerous sexual behaviour 
Rachel Edwards, Rosie Tackley and Ben Jarvis
This presentation will present an outline of SWAAY Baby and Adolescent provisions and describe and evaluate the sorts of referrals seen by each residential companies and community-based companies. The presenters will then present an overview of the completely different fashions and built-in approaches which information their assessments and interventions. The various kinds of remedy interventions on provide will likely be described. The significance of analysis will likely be highlighted and SWAAYs method to this will likely be mentioned.

Key studying takeways

1. Present an outline of the SWAAY residential and community-based companies.
2. Give an appreciation of the necessity for an built-in method when assessing and offering interventions for younger folks with complicated wants presenting with dangerous sexual behaviours.
3. Present an understanding of useful remedy fashions and the way acceptable interventions have been developed from these.

Creating safer environments for youngsters and younger folks: some insights from principle and apply
Tom Squire
This presentation will define the great framework for the prevention of kid sexual abuse (Smallbone, Marshall and Wortley, 2008), incorporating key concepts from situational crime prevention in addition to theories to deconstruct the method of sexual abuse. Armed with these insights, examples of prevention initiatives will likely be explored in additional element to light up how principle may be utilized in apply, together with: (1) LFF’s on-line discussion board for the household and buddies of people that have seen indecent photographs of youngsters and/or groomed youngsters through the web; (2) deterrence messaging on grownup web sites to stop the sexual abuse of youngsters on-line; and (3) LFF’s work in creating safer college communities for youngsters and younger folks.

Key studying takeways

1. To know extra concerning the course of by means of which youngsters are sexually abused.
2. To develop consciousness of the great framework for the prevention of kid sexual abuse.
3. To supply an oversight of various prevention initiatives as examples of placing principle into apply
4. To realize extra perception into the event and promotion of safeguarding cultures inside households and organisations

Rising considerations about TACSA – Tech-Assisted Baby Sexual Abuseiour
Victoria Inexperienced and Lawrence Jordan
Baby sexual abuse manifests itself in lots of types and exhibits no respect for worldwide boundaries. The web provides many thrilling alternatives for childhood improvement, nevertheless, all too usually it’s utilized by others to facilitate the sexual abuse of youngsters and younger folks. The trauma results from such abuse on victims and survivors is complicated because of the on-line nature of offending. Victims usually face re-traumatisation because of the permanence of their photographs on-line and the unknown extent of their distribution to others. This could have profound results on them and their restoration significantly the place there’s ineffective help from the outset.

By means of expertise of working with youngsters we all know that when abuse or exploitation has concerned expertise and/or on-line exercise, the impacts on the victims and households are completely different and requires a selected response tailor-made to fulfill their safety wants. We additionally know that in case you place the wants of the sufferer and their household on the centre of any investigation or skilled intervention you might be more likely to higher safeguard the kid and to realize a proportionate and acceptable response throughout the felony justice system. MCF give professionals the instruments to fastidiously plan the way to method every particular person case from the purpose of discovery of the abuse alongside the trail to eventual restoration. It’s about the way to perform interventions in a method that’s supportive of the wants of the youngsters and their households.

Key studying takeways

1. To know how youngsters are abused by means of expertise.
2. To know the differential impacts of tech-assisted youngster sexual abuse.
3. To know the obstacles to a baby telling about their abuse.
4. Perceive the way to reply in a method that does no additional hurt.

Concerning the audio system

Dr. Arnon Bentovim labored on the Nice Ormond Road Youngsters’s Hospital and the Tavistock Clinic. At Nice Ormond Road, he helped to provoke a variety of companies together with the primary Sexual Abuse Evaluation and Remedy Service within the UK,  a teams and household systemic mannequin of intervention, researching outcomes. A observe up of sexually abused boys into adolescence and early maturity demonstrated  publicity to household violence, and neglect predisposed to sexually dangerous behaviour.  He consulted to SWAAY a service for younger folks demonstrating sexually dangerous behaviour, and was a Chair of the Faithfull Basis Board  and Life President.

Analysis on Household Evaluation on the Institute of Baby Well being shaped the premise of the instruments commissioned by the Division of Well being and Division of Training to help the Evaluation Framework. Baby and Household Coaching was established to supply coaching and additional developments in evidence-based apply together with the modular intervention method to intervention, together with a information on working with Sexual Abuse in younger folks.

Rachel Edwards has almost 30 years’ expertise working at SWAAY with younger individuals who have skilled developmental trauma and been liable for dangerous sexual behaviour. Her space of experience is in evaluation and remedy. She has a selected curiosity in creating and evaluating remedy programmes for this shopper group and has beforehand printed analysis on this space. Rachel was one of many founding member of a working social gathering of like-minded professionals involved with creating goal evaluation instruments for younger folks with studying disabilities to be able to higher consider remedy approaches for this group. For the final 10 years Rachel has been liable for creating and managing the Group- Primarily based Companies at SWAAY which provides specialist assessments and interventions to youngsters, adolescents, younger adults and their households. Throughout this time she has developed a selected curiosity in working with younger folks on the autism spectrum and as such the mulsitdisciplinary workforce have developed the abilities to undertake neurodevelopmental assessments, in addition to assessments associated to dangerous sexual behaviours.

Rosie Tackley is an assistant psychologist at SWAAY, the place she helps younger people by means of one-on-one periods and co-facilitates two group remedy programmes, Freeway Group and Gateway Yellow Group. The Freeway group focuses on play and artistic actions to boost attunement and assist younger folks join bodily sensations with feelings. The Gateway group is tailor-made to deal with dangerous sexual behaviours, particularly tailored for people with extra studying wants. Earlier than becoming a member of SWAAY, Rosie was working as an assistant psychologist in HMPPS and safe psychological well being amenities with grownup males.

Ben Jarvis accomplished his BSc and MSc in psychology at Otago College in Dunedin, New Zealand. Throughout this time Ben started volunteering to help youngsters with troublesome upbringings and adults with studying difficulties earlier than discovering a job in supported residing. Ben moved again to England in 2014 and continued working in supported unbiased residing till 2016 when Ben joined SWAAY as a youngsters’s residential employee. Over the previous 8 years Ben has continued working with SWAAY however in 2018 Ben moved away from residential work to therapeutic work. Since then Ben has been facilitating group remedy programmes, in addition to offering particular person remedy to youngsters with complicated wants. In 2019 Ben started coaching as a play therapist by means of PTUK and accomplished his PGDip in Play Remedy in 2023.

By July 2024 Ben had accomplished over 300 periods of Therapeutic Play and Play Remedy, in addition to over 750 particular person remedy periods, and over 350 group remedy periods. The person and group remedy Ben accomplished has included CBT primarily based speaking therapies, directive and non-directive play remedy, manualised programme for treating offending behaviours, and varied different therapeutic modalities similar to compassion focussed remedy, household techniques, life-story work, and psychoeducation.

Ben has labored with a broad vary of younger folks together with youngsters from completely different cultures, with diagnoses of ADHD, ASD, FASD, PTSD, and Attachment issues, adopted and fostered youngsters, dangerous sexual behaviour, sensory difficulties, and trauma signs.

Tom Squire has labored for LFF for 17 years and has a wealth of expertise working with households the place there are considerations about sexual abuse, together with assessments as an skilled witness within the household courts. Tom gives coaching and consultancy to professionals and different organisations within the prevention of sexual abuse, in addition to medical help to LFF’s Cease It Now helpline. He’s additionally one among LFF’s media spokespeople. He has a background within the probation service, for whom he facilitated a variety of accredited remedy programmes for males convicted of sexual offences.

Victoria Inexperienced, CEO, is a seasoned skilled within the subject of kid safety with over 30 years of expertise as a registered social employee. She has held a variety of roles at each operational and strategic stage and has been a frontline employee, supervisor, principal social employee and Safeguarding Youngsters Board improvement and strategic supervisor. Victoria is keen about advocating for youngsters’s rights and defending these harmed by technology-assisted youngster sexual abuse (TACSA), a mission that’s on the core of all the things MCF does.

Lawrence Jordan is the Director of companies at Marie Collins Basis (MCF), and previous to beginning with the inspiration in 2021 labored throughout the Youngsters Social Care enviornment since 2003. Lawrence is a professional social employee and has expertise inside a Multi-Company Safeguarding Hub (MASH), Household help workforce, and in an emergency responsibility workforce. Lawrence has acquired 2 awards, firstly referring to his work with youngsters and households, and secondly a police commendation for his distinctive work with youngsters who’re exploited, go lacking or have been trafficked.Lawrence has acquired 2 awards, firstly referring to his work with youngsters and households, and secondly a police commendation for his distinctive work with youngsters who’re exploited, go lacking or have been trafficked.