This is a half day course for professionals who may be required as part of their role to make an assessment of or deliver an intervention to a child or young person with harmful sexual behaviour where that young person has experienced childhood trauma(s).  Participants on this course must have attended the 90 minutes workshop, ‘Identifying Harmful Sexual Behaviour in Children and Young people’.

Learning objectives:

• Understand what we mean by ‘learning disability’
• Have a clearer understanding of how having a learning disability might impact upon a child’s sexual development
• Understand some of the reasons why children with a learning disability might display harmful sexual behaviour
• Be able to adapt assessment and intervention when working with harmful sexual behaviour to be responsive to the needs of children with a learning disability
• Understand how to create realistic, proportionate and comprehensive safety plans for children and young people with a learning disability.