BASW Cymru Practice Workshop: Harmful sexual behaviours

Harmful Sexual Behaviours - exploring current thinking around practice and research involving child sexual abuse (CSA), Harmful Sexual Behaviours (HSB), and Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)'

Presented by Kathryn Lawrence: Kathryn is a registered social worker, with over 25 years of experience, working with vulnerable children and young people, across several sectors and roles. She started working specifically within the field of sexual abuse in 2012, as a practitioner and then a manager within a specialist service, working with harmful sexual behaviour and child sexual exploitation (Barnardo’s Better Futures Service, formally Taith and Seraf). Kathryn is the practice lead in service, developing practice around young children and non-directive methods of intervention for sexual harm. She developed education resources to inform RSE curriculum in schools across South Wales. Kathryn leads on the children’s rights work within the service and ensures that the voices of children, who have been affected by sexual abuse, can be heard. So far, this has included feeding into work with the Children’s Commissioner for Wales, the Police and Crimes Commissioners Office and the Welsh Government.