We have been experts in the field of child sexual abuse prevention for over 30 years. The work we do in providing independent, specialist assessments and interventions makes a difference to the lives of children and families. Our work supports professionals to make evidence-based decisions about the safeguarding of children from sexual harm.
Who we work with
We receive referrals from a range of professionals, such as children’s services, adult services, education, healthcare, or other agencies, or from individuals.
We are approved by the Legal Aid Agency and provide assessments and expert witness testimony for the family courts.
We specialise in providing bespoke assessments, specialist interventions and consultancy in relation to child sexual abuse and harmful sexual behaviour. Please contact us to enquire about our services.
How we can help
- Contributing to local authority decision-making, including family safety planning, child contact arrangements or family reunification.
- Aiding family court proceedings, such as care proceedings, adoption hearings and decision making within PLO (Public Law Outline) processes.
- Contributing to safeguarding decision making by agencies such as sporting bodies, education or religious organisations.
- Providing specialist interventions for individuals to manage and reduce the risk of sexual harm, working with children, young people and adults.
- Protective parenting interventions for parents and caregivers where there are CSA concerns either by an adult or a child/young person in the family.
- Therapeutic intervention work with children, young people, adults or entire families aimed at reducing the risk of harm posed to children.
Expert Practitioners
Our team of expert practitioners come from diverse backgrounds including social care, probation, and psychology. They possess extensive skills and expertise in working with child sexual abuse and harmful sexual behaviour.
Our expert practitioners are skilled in using range of suitable assessment frameworks/evidence base to meet the needs of each case, focusing on providing the best possible assessment of concerns and protective factors to inform a formulation of risk and needs and/or protective ability. We make meaningful recommendations to help families and professionals safeguard children.
We utilise approaches from cognitive behavioural therapy, the good lives model, schema theory, motivational interviewing and compassion focused therapy within our therapeutic engagement. Our intervention approach is therapeutic and trauma-informed, catering to individuals and families from various backgrounds with complex needs.
- Assessments of children and young who have exhibited harmful sexual behaviour, including sibling sexual abuse, sexual harm to other children or problematic sexual behaviours.
- Assessments of adults who have committed or have allegations relating to sexual abuse to a child. This includes online and contact sexual abuse concerns.
- Ability to protect assessments with adults, including partners, parents and caregivers in families where concerns about child sexual abuse have been identified.
- Dual or whole family assessments for families with complex needs.
Our assessments can he held online or in-person, and include a comprehensive report based on the most relevant assessment frameworks for each case. Contact us to find out more.
Feedback
The report is well-written and has been extremely helpful in identifying and providing evidence of the risk.
The report will greatly assist in future care planning.
- Tailored packages of intervention to individuals, couples or families where there are child sexual abuse concerns. This may include intervention with a person of concerns and keep-safe or protective parenting input with others in the family.
- Interventions with children and young people who may have displayed problematic or harmful sexual behaviours and support/intervention with their parents/carers. We work with children from age five and upwards and have a team of specialist children and young people practitioners who have extensive experience in this field.
- Interventions with adults who have, or have been alleged to have caused sexual harm to children, aimed at reducing their risk of sexual harm.
- Protective parenting interventions aimed at enhancing the ability to safeguard children from sexual harm. This may include work with parents, carers, foster carers, and other extended family members.
- Family safety planning work with individuals, couples and families. This may be a short intervention in liaison with professionals to help work towards a shared family safety plan agreement to safeguard children.
I cannot thank you enough for your time, help, and support. It's great to find someone who truly understands my experiences. Thank you once again.
I had a general understanding of CSA, but this intervention clarified so much. It provided useful information that I can apply now and in the future as my child grows. I feel more confident in identifying signs of CSA and taking preventive measures.
I enjoy our conversations; it's been helpful to express myself. It's like letting it all out rather than focusing on individual thoughts in my head.
- Case consultation: providing specialist knowledge and support to an individual professional, a team or multi agency meeting regarding an individual case or family. This may help with decision making and advising on recommendations around safeguarding. Options of having a case specific formulation report provided can be explored also.
- Organisational consultation: providing regular input to a team, input within team clinical supervision or reflective practise and development sessions, offering specialist knowledge and advice to professionals working with families affected by harmful/abusive sexual behaviour concerns.
- Bespoke consultation: this may include consultation to carers/foster carers in managing problematic/harmful sexual behaviours displayed by children and young people in their care. Alternatively, we may can provide organisational general safeguarding consultation.
We were really impressed with the practitioner's knowledge and experiences. Her understanding of the situation made her input invaluable.
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