Aims

To raise awareness of the issues surrounding Children at risk of sexual exploitation and how adults in a caring role can understand and react. The course will provide parents, carers and staff with a clear understanding of the dysfunctional cycles that lead to this behaviour and the psychological and bio-medical elements that impact on it.

Learning Outcomes

- Understand what Sexual-Exploitation is

- What might cause a young person to indulge in such risky behaviour

- Explore ways that carers might be able to help a young person to control self-harming behaviour

- Identify other available, useful and helpful resources

- Understand the role that social pedagogy can assist in building holistic meaningful relationships.