Sexual harassment and sexual violence are strands of a range of behaviours described as child-on-child abuse, also described as harmful sexual behaviour.

Unpicking the nature of harmful sexual behaviour is a key task to this challenging. It informs safeguarding practitioners and leaders as they make decisions about proportionate risk assessment, incident analysis, complex safety planning and sourcing the right interventions for those who sexually harm, and those impacted by sexual harm

This conference brings together expert speakers with specialist knowledge and experience who work across the continuum of harmful sexual behaviour. It aims to inform and support colleagues managing cases of harmful sexual behaviour, helping them to analyse and identify sources of support, develop appropriate responses, and unpick the complexity of this broad ranging and challenging area of safeguarding work.

Sacpa will facilitate questions directly from members to our experts throughout the day and encourage delegates to come prepared with questions for our panels.

Training topics will include:

• Children and harmful sexual behaviour: what we know now
• Expected sexual development to serious sexual offending: proportionate identification and response
• The prevalence of harmful sexual content: the role of pornography, and influencers
• Diversity, vulnerability and disproportionality: what we know from co-horts of harmers and harmed children & young people
• Best practice in assessment, safety planning, intervention and moving on: from brief intervention to justice responses and treatment: what works
• Looking back, looking forward: where to next

Learning outcomes:

• Delegates will have the most recent updates from evidence and practice to support their assessment and management of harmful sexual behaviour
• Delegates will have information to identify harmful sexual behaviour and respond in proportionate ways
• Delegates to consider the impact of access to pornography and influencers on the prevalence of harmful sexual behaviour
• Delegates will unpick why children and you people with additional needs and vulnerabilities are over-represented in those engaging in, or affected by harmful sexual behaviour
• Delegates will hear about best practice in referral, assessment, safety planning and intervention across a range of harmful sexual behaviour
• Delegates will have a summary of key points of the day and key takeaways for future developments to support affected children and young people and safeguarding practitioners.

Audience: All safeguarding practitioners and leaders working with children and young people

Venue: Zoom (online) – Conference

Cost

• Member Rate: £195
• Non-member Rate: £195*

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Programme:

09:00 – 09:45

Children and harmful sexual behaviour: what we know now

Our keynote speaker explores the current and emerging themes on what we know about children and young people who engage in harmful sexual behaviour. Delegates will have the most recent updates from evidence and practice to support their assessment and management of this specific area of safeguarding work.

• Chair: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, Sacpa
•  Speaker:
  • Carol Carson, Director & The AIM Project Manager

09:45 – 10:00   

Break

10:00-11:00

Expected sexual development to serious sexual offending: proportionate identification and response

Speakers examine the continuum of harmful sexual behaviours and explore ways in which incident analysis can support safeguarding leaders identifying and responding to incidents in proportionate and defensible ways. 

• Chair: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, Sacpa

11:00-11:30

Break

11:30-12:30

The prevalence of harmful sexual content: the role of pornography, and influencers

Using evidence from research and practice, speakers explore the effects of online pornography and attitudes of online influencers on adolescents, supporting delegates to consider its impact when delivering preventative education, early help or working with specialist agencies.

• Chair: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, Sacpa
•  Speakers:
  • Dr Elena Martellozzo, DoP in Policing/Assoc Professor of Criminology, Middlesex University
  • Michael Sheath, Consultant

12:30-13:30

Break

13:30-14:30

Diversity, vulnerability and disproportionality: what we know from co-horts of harmers, and harmed children & young people

Children and young people with disabilities, special needs, neurodiversity, and other vulnerabilities can be more vulnerable to engaging in acts of sexual harm themselves and/or as survivors of sexual harm. Speakers explore why this group is over-represented, and what can be done to support safeguarding practitioners managing cases of harmful sexual behaviour with additional complexities.

• Chair: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, Sacpa
•  Speakers:
  • Professor Clare Allely, Professor of Forensic Psychology, University of Salford
  • Kate Simlett, Deputy Head (Pastoral), Tudor Hall School

14:30-15:00

Break

15:00-15:45   

Best practice in assessment, safety planning, intervention and moving on: from brief intervention to justice responses and treatment: what works

Effective incident analysis supports decisions about referral, assessment, safety planning and intervention. Speakers in this session share a range of appropriate responses to support delegates decision making, safety planning and multi-agency working.

• Chair: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, Sacpa
•  Speaker:
  • Vicky Cole, Team Manager, Barnardo’s TIGER Services

15:45-16:00

Break

16:00-16:45

Looking back, looking forward: where to next

Speakers summarise the key points of the day and reflect on future developments to aid safeguarding practitioners managing cases of harmful sexual behaviour

• Chair: Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding, Sacpa
• Speaker:
  • Laura Nott, Lucy Faithfull Foundation

Speakers:

Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding and Director, Sacpa

Claire is Director of Safeguarding at BSA Group and Director of Sacpa. Claire leads on the development of Sacpa, the provision of safeguarding advice and support to members and the development and delivery of CPD and safeguarding consultancy services across BSA Group. Claire is a safeguarding specialist with a background in education welfare, youth justice, and early help contexts which have involved a strong focus on diverse and collaborative multi-disciplinary teams and projects.  
 
Between 2006 and 2013 Claire was involved with Luton Safeguarding Children Board as a lead multi-agency safeguarding trainer, developing, and delivering single and multi-agency safeguarding training. Thereafter, Claire provided a range of safeguarding consultancy, pieces of safeguarding training, professional conduct, and review work on a freelance basis. 

Carol Carson, Director & The AIM Project Manager

Carol has been a registered social worker for over 35 years working with children and families in a range of settings including field social work, residential and education safeguarding. She also has experience of the management and delivery of children’s services as Head of Safeguarding.

Carol is Director of Carol Carson Associates Ltd and an independent social work consultant and trainer, with a specialism in working with children and young people with harmful sexual behaviours (HSB) gained over 20 plus years of experience of assessments, direct work, development, training and consultancy and is currently offering management services to The AIM Project as a Core AIM Associate and part of the Central Team.

Dr Elena Martellozzo, DoP in Policing/Assoc Professor of Criminology, Middlesex University 

Dr. Elena Martellozzo is a criminologist and an Associate Professor in Criminology. She is the Director of Programmes in Polocing and Lectures on subject’s related to Victimisation and Cybercrime. When Elena lectures she bings into the classroom her research experience which includes: exploring children and young people’s online behaviour, the analysis of sexual grooming and police practice in the area of child sexual abuse, online risks, digital harms and victimisation.

She is an active researcher at the centre for Child Abuse and Trauma Studies (CATS) at Middlesex University. She has an extensive experience in both teaching and researching subjects within the criminal justice arena. She is a world leading expert in online safety and is involved in policy debates at the intersection of technology and human behaviour. Her research includes exploring online harms, online violence against the most vulnerable, including women and children, the analysis of sexual abuse and police practice in child safety. She participates in highly sensitive research with the Police, the IWF, the NSPCC, the OCC, the Home Office and other government departments and has acted as an advisor on child online protection to governments and practitioners in Italy (since 2004) and Bahrain (2016) to develop a national child internet safety policy framework. As a published, peer-reviewed author, I have been featured by BBC, New York Post, Sunday Times, The Guardian, Channel 4, Radio 4, ITV, The Times Radio.

Michael Sheath, Consultant

Professor Clare Allely, Professor of Forensic Psychology, University of Salford

Dr Clare Allely is a Reader in Forensic Psychology at the University of Salford in Manchester, England and is an affiliate member of the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre at Gothenburg University, Sweden. Clare holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Manchester and has previously graduated with an MA (hons.) in Psychology from the University of Glasgow, an MRes in Psychological Research Methods from the University of Strathclyde and an MSc in Forensic Psychology from Glasgow Caledonian University. Clare is also an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences affiliated to the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. She is also an Associate of the Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice (CYCJ) at the University of Strathclyde. Clare also acts as an expert witness in criminal cases and HCPC fitness to practice cases and also contributes to the evidence base used in the courts on psychology and legal issues through her published work.

Kate Simlett, Deputy Head (Pastoral), Tudor Hall School

Kate has been teaching and working in Boarding Schools for 22 years. Kate grew up in South Africa and after University Kate started teaching at Glenalmond College in Scotland as Head of Girls Games and a resident tutor in one of the girls’ boarding houses. Kate went on to study an MSc at Loughborough University and teach PE at Repton school, before moving to Moreton Hall Girls School where Kate become a Housemistress, Director of Sport, Senior Housemistress and Director of Wellbeing. Kate is currently the Deputy Head Pastoral and DSL at Tudor Hall which is a full boarding all-girls school and has held this position for 4 years in January. Kate works closely with the prep school, Carrdus and has recently become an Oxfordshire County Council Safeguarding Trainer.

Vicky Cole, Team Manager, Barnardo’s TIGER Services

Laura Nott, Lucy Faithfull Foundation

After a background in probation, Laura developed prevention work for young men affected by domestic abuse, helping them to understand healthy relationships. Laura then set up a training and consultancy business, training teachers, social workers and police officers in protective behaviours, safeguarding and family therapy. After managing several voluntary sector projects and organisations, Laura now leads Lucy Faithfull’s multidisciplinary Schools team, working alongside researchers from the University of Surrey to support schools to respond to and prevent harmful sexual behaviour.