Jackie Bateman and Judith Milner
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 978-1-84905-361-7
£22.99
168 pages
Around one-third of all sexual abuse of children and young people in the UK is perpetrated by other children and young people, with figures obtained by the NSPCC in 2014 showing that 8,000 under-18s were accused of sexual offences against other children in the past two years.
This is a solution-focused resource aimed at practitioners and anchored in the territory of strengths-based models and their practical application. The book opens with "myths, realities and possibilities" which sets out the context of harmful sexual behaviour work in the UK.
The authors point out the UK government has not had an adequate policy response over the last two decades, despite the 1992 seminal National Children Homes report that highlighted this challenge and acted as a clarion call to government to develop an integrated response to the problem.
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