Children and Young People Whose Behaviour is Sexually Concerning or Harmful
by the same author
Working with Children and Teenagers Using Solution Focused Approaches
Enabling Children to Overcome Challenges and Achieve their Potential
Judith Milner and Jackie Bateman
ISBN 978 1 84905 082 1
eISBN 978 0 85700 261 7
of related interest
A Treatment Manual for Adolescents Displaying Harmful Sexual Behaviour
Change for Good
Eamon McCrory
Foreword by Jon Brown
Illustrated by Paula Walker-Rhymes
ISBN 978 1 84905 146 0
eISBN 978 0 85700 312 6
What Have I Done?
A Victim Empathy Programme For Young People
Pete Wallis
With Clair Aldington and Marian Liebmann
Illustrated by Emily Wallis
ISBN 978 1 84310 979 2
eISBN 978 0 85700 211 2
Changing Offending Behaviour
A Handbook of Practical Exercises and Photocopiable Resources for Promoting Positive Change
Clark Baim and Lydia Guthrie
ISBN 978 1 84905 511 6
eISBN 978 0 85700 928 9
Children Who Commit Acts of Serious Interpersonal Violence
Messages for Best Practice
Edited by Ann Hagell and Renuka Jeyarajah-Dent
ISBN 978 1 84310 384 4
eISBN 978 1 84642 545 5
Communication Skills for Working with Children and Young People
Introducing Social Pedagogy
3rd edition
Pat Petrie
ISBN 978 1 84905 137 8
eISBN 978 0 85700 331 7
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
WHOSE BEHAVIOUR IS SEXUALLY CONCERNING OR HARMFUL
Assessing Risk and Developing Safety Plans
JACKIE BATEMAN JUDITH MILNER
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
London and Philadelphia
Excerpts on page 30 and 118 are reproduced with kind permission of Andrew Turnell. Excerpt on page 96 is reproduced with kind permission of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders and to obtain their permission for the use of copyright material. The author and the publisher apologize for any omissions and would be grateful if notified of any acknowledgements that should be incorporated in future reprints or editions of this book.
First published in 2015
by Jessica Kingsley Publishers
73 Collier Street
London N1 9BE, UK
and
400 Market Street, Suite 400
Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
www.jkp.com
Copyright Jackie Bateman and Judith Milner 2015
Front cover image source: Shutterstock.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, Saffron House, 610 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Applications for the copyright owners written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher.
Warning: The doing of an unauthorised act in relation to a copyright work may result in both a civil claim for damages and criminal prosecution.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Bateman, Jackie, 1973-
Children and young people whose behaviour is sexually concerning or harmful : assessing risk and developing safety plans / Jackie Bateman and Judith Milner.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-84905-361-7 (alk. paper)
1. Children--Sexual behavior--Great Britain. 2. Youth--Sexual behavior--Great Britain. I. Milner, Judith, 1941- II. Title.
HQ784.S45B38 2015
306.708350941--dc23
2014027601
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 84905 361 7
eISBN 978 0 85700 714 8
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Myths, Realities and Possibilities:
The Legal Framework
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
There are many people to whom we owe thanks:
Lorell Webster for patiently reading drafts and her generous feedback, advice and support
Paul Edwards for his continuous encouragement and frank comments
Barnardos The Junction, particularly Carol Larne and Laura Walker
Stephen Jones at Jessica Kingsley Publishers for his encouragement and guidance.
And lastly we acknowledge the children, young people and their families who have agreed for their stories to be shared.
Introduction
About this Book
The sexual behaviour of children and young people is frequently inappropriate; sometimes concerning; and, less frequently, harmful. Yet professionals who are confident when working with problems such as challenging or offending behaviour often lose this confidence when faced with behaviour that has a sexual component. To some extent this is because a wide variety of initiatives reporting varying levels of success has contributed to a piecemeal development of risk management strategies and treatment methodologies. Rather than compare approaches or critique methodologies, this book sets out the practical application of a strengths-based approach to safety assessments and the development of safe care plans.
Whether the worker is a primary school teacher faced with a child who follows other pupils into the toilet and touches their private parts, a foster parent who discovers that her fourteen-year-old foster child has stolen her knickers from the washing basket or a social worker who is asked to deal with a young person in a residential home who has sexually assaulted younger children, this book will help that worker develop a language for talking about the behaviours, assess levels of risk and safety, and manage it through the development of safe care plans.
Using strengths-based approaches to working with children and young people, the book offers effective and creative ways of developing responsibility-taking and safety with those who deny, minimise and rationalise their behaviour, children who are both abused and abusers, and those with learning difficulties. Guidance is provided on how to talk with children and young people who may be difficult to reach because of embarrassment, shame and fear of the consequences of their behaviour. The development of safe care plans, for the home and/or school, is detailed, concentrating on areas of communication, supervision, and supportive networks. The book highlights the importance of working with families and networks, and any concomitant challenging behaviours to ensure that children develop both sexual safety for others and emotional and sexual safety for themselves.
CHAPTER 1
Myths, Realities and Possibilities
The Legal Framework
The legal framework for work with children and young people with harmful sexual behaviour was initially set out in the Children Act 1989, which required services to be provided to meet the needs of this group of young people, as children in need, under Section 17 and Schedule 2 of the Act. The first piece of guidance which specifically made reference to children and young people with harmful sexual behaviour was the second edition of Working Together under the Children Act 1989 (Department of Health 1991), which recommended that child protection procedures should be followed with the convening of a child protection conference followed by a review on completion of a comprehensive assessment. This was swiftly followed by the semi-formal guidance set out in The Report of the Committee of Enquiry into Children and Young People Who Sexually Abuse Other Children (National Childrens Home 1992), which provided a more comprehensive picture of how young people who were engaging in harmful sexual behaviour were being managed in the UK. The findings were not optimistic, there being:
![Chris Bateman [Chris Bateman] - Beyond Game Design: Nine Steps Toward Creating Better Videogames](/uploads/posts/book/119409/thumbs/chris-bateman-chris-bateman-beyond-game-design.jpg)
