Course outline:

This conference brings together expert speakers with specialist knowledge and experience who work across the continuum of harmful sexual behaviour and child sexual abuse and it aims to inform and support colleagues managing cases of harmful sexual behaviour.

This conference will help broaden their knowledge and experience of this area of safeguarding work, consider the impact of initiatives and draw on frameworks and models of practice to support this highly sensitive area of 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.

Unable to attend? A post conference recording will be available for purchase.

Training topics will include:

• Children First
• Compliance and the preventative education curriculum
• Pathways to identification and support
• Best Practice Initiatives
• Talking with Children about Harmful Sexual Behaviour
• Effective Work with Boys

Learning outcomes:

• Delegates will be updated about the range and scope of HSB and consider how a child first approach supports practice.
• Delegates will be up to date about regulatory compliance when managing harmful sexual behaviour cases.
• Delegates will consider how extra-familial risks impact the wellbeing of children.
• Delegates will be able to map and enhance multiple pathways of identification for harmful sexual behaviour and consider signposting and support services for practitioners managing HSB cases.
• Delegates will benefit from the learning and outcomes impacts of initiatives developed to effectively prevent and manage harmful sexual behaviour.
• Delegates will explore what they can learn and implement from the forensic `achieving best evidence`(ABE) frameworks and practice when speaking with children about harmful sexual behaviour.
• Delegates will consider key concepts of working with boys and how this can underpin their safeguarding practice.

Audience: 

All those involved in safeguarding and working with children who are affected by harmful sexual behaviour

Platform: Zoom (online) – conference

Cost:

• SACPA Member Rate: £235
• SACPA Additional Full Member Fee: £110
• SACPA Full Member Whole School Fee: £490
• Non-member Rate: £470*

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Programme:

09:30 – 10:15

Children First

In this session our speaker highlights the emotive nature of harmful sexual behaviour, its scope and prevalence and the need to prioritise a child first approach.

Delegates will be updated about the range and scope of HSB and consider how a child first approach supports practice.

Speaker: Claire Dan, Director, SACPA and Safeguarding Director, BSA Group 

Break 10:15 – 10:30

10:30 – 11:30

Compliance and the preventative education curriculum

In this session our speakers explore regulatory practices when reviewing the management of harmful sexual behaviour cases, focusing on the impact of pornography and the manosphere which influence violence against women and girls and minimise harmful sexual behaviours.

Delegates will be up to date about regulatory compliance when managing harmful sexual behaviour cases and consider how extra-familial risks impact the wellbeing of children.

Break 11:30 – 11:45

11:45 – 12:30

Pathways to identification and support

This session debates how multi-disciplinary teams and professional support services deliver multiple pathways for identification and support.

Delegates will be able to map and enhance multiple pathways of identification for harmful sexual behaviour and consider signposting and support services for practitioners managing HSB cases.

• Chair: Gaelle Sullivan, Director of Research, Inclusion and IELA

Lunch 12:30 – 13:30

13:30 – 14:30

Best Practice Initiatives

Our speakers share the rationale and outcomes of best practice initiatives developed to combat and support recovery from harmful sexual behaviour.

Delegates will benefit from the learning and outcomes impacts of initiatives developed to effectively prevent and manage harmful sexual behaviour.

• Chair: Claire Dan, SACPA and Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group
  • Speaker: Sam Mothersole, Assistant Head (Safeguarding and Inclusion), Framlingham College

Break 14:30 – 14:45

14:45 – 15:30

Talking to Children about Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Our speaker explores the importance of trauma informed practice when speaking to children about harmful sexual behaviour.

Delegates will explore what they can learn and implement from the forensic `achieving best evidence`(ABE) frameworks and practice when speaking with children about harmful sexual behaviour.

• Chair: Claire Dan, SACPA and Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group
  • Speaker: Philip Baines, Director, Woodland Baines

Break 15:30 – 15:45

15:45 – 16:30

Effective Work with Boys

Our speakers focus on the importance of understanding how to effectively work with boys and how key best practice concepts can be implemented to support both in harmful sexual behaviour and wider work with boys.

Delegates will consider key concepts of working with boys and how this can underpin their safeguarding practice. 

• Chair: Claire Dan, SACPA and Director of Safeguarding, BSA Group
  • Speaker: Andrew Hampton, CEO, Girls on Board UK and Author, Working with Boys
  • Stephanie Eyres, Safeguarding Manager, Wellington College

Speakers:

Philip Baines, Director, Woodland Baines

Philip was a Detective having spent 30 years in the police. The last 14 years of his police service was in the Child Abuse Investigation Unit (CAIU). He is also qualified as the following:

Family Liaison Officer (FLO), Disaster Victim Identification Officer (DVI), Significant Witness interviewer (Sig Wit), Enhanced Cognitive Witness Interviewer, Domestic Abuse Officer, PIP Level 2 investigator, Achieving Best Evidence (ABE- VRI vulnerable and intimidated witness interviewer), Specialist Child Abuse Investigative Development Programme (SCAIDP) and a Joint Investigator – Section 47 Children Act ‘89.

Philip was also seconded to the Training Department for 2 years, where he received qualifications in training and delivered all these subjects, including Harmful Sexual Behaviours (HSB). Philip is a qualified AIM3 Assessor of children displaying HSB. Philip also quality assured the Home Office Harmful Sexual Behaviours Support Service (HSBSS) where he oversaw and triaged all the requests for support and advised personally on all the complex cases. Philip supports survivors and families who have been victim of all types of abuse, including technology assisted child sexual abuse (TACSA) through his work as a consultant for the Marie Collins Foundation.

Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding and Director, SACPA

Claire is Director of Safeguarding and Director, SACPA and leads on the provision of safeguarding advice and support to members and the development and delivery of CPD and safeguarding consultancy services. Claire is a safeguarding specialist and leader with a background in education welfare, youth justice, and early help contexts which have involved a strong focus on diverse and collaborative partnerships, professional development and supervision of front-line safeguarding colleagues, and leading 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, and since 2013 has delivered pieces of bespoke consultancy work, and providing a range of safeguarding consultancy on a freelance basis.

Andrew Hampton, CEO, Girls on Board UK and Author, Working with Boys

Andrew Hampton was a Headteacher for 18 years and stepped away from headship in 2021. He is the creator and founder of Girls on Board – an approach for schools which empowers girls to navigate the choppy waters of friendships for themselves. In 2021 he published a book called Working with Boys – Creating cultures of mutual respect in schools. He was the Chair of ISA in 2014 – 15 and a director of ISI in 2018 – 19.

Stephanie Eyres, Safeguarding Manager, Wellington College

Sam Mothersole, Assistant Head (Safeguarding and Inclusion), Framlingham College