Keeping Children Safe? Advancing Social Care Assessments to Address Harmful Sexual Behaviour in Schools

5 January 2021 4 mins read Social Care Safeguarding and child protection Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Analysis of two studies to build an assessment framework for responding to abuse in schools for further testing in the future.

Studies show that practitioners must examine the relationship between the school context and the harm that occurs or is facilitated there. Picture: benschonewille/Adobe Stock

Report title: Keeping Children Safe? Advancing Social Care Assessments to Address Harmful Sexual Behaviour in Schools

Authors: Jenny Lloyd, Joanne Walker and Carlene Firmin, Child & Family Social Work (February 2020)

The findings presented in this article are based on cumulative evidence from two studies. The first aimed to explore enablers and barriers to addressing harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) in schools. In the second study, researchers worked alongside social care practitioners to test an assessment of a school environment as part of a wider programme of work to build Contextual Safeguarding systems into children’s services departments. Analysis of these two studies was undertaken to build an assessment framework for responding to abuse in schools for further testing in the future.

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