Training
Trauma‑informed HSB/PSB training that strengthens confident, connected practice across teams supporting children and young people.
Enquire nowWe offer practical, trauma‑ and attachment‑informed HSB/PSB training for families, carers and professionals across the UK, available to spot‑purchase and tailored to your needs.
Our training supports everyone involved in the lives of children and young people in care, offering clear, accessible learning grounded in trauma and attachment. This includes specialist sessions on understanding and responding to harmful and problematic sexual behaviour (HSB/PSB), alongside a wider programme of training designed to strengthen confident, safe practice across teams.
Sessions can be spot‑purchased by local authorities, residential homes, schools, social care teams, and other organisations across the UK.
Alongside our core training offer, we also provide bespoke workshops shaped around your team’s needs. These can be delivered online or in person, depending on availability and location.
Below, you’ll find the range of training currently available, with options to commission bespoke sessions for your setting.
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Understanding Sexual Behaviours in Children and Young People
This one-day workshop provides professionals with a practical and evidence-informed understanding of sexual behaviour in children and young people across the developmental continuum, from normative and developmentally expected behaviours through to problematic and harmful sexual behaviour.
The training aims to increase confidence in recognising, understanding, assessing, and responding to concerns in a proportionate, child-centred, and safeguarding-focused way.
- Understanding sexual development and the continuum of behaviours
- Differentiating normative, problematic, and harmful sexual behaviour
- Key risk and protective factors
- The impact of trauma, attachment, neurodiversity, family dynamics, and online influences
- Responding to incidents and safeguarding considerations
- Risk assessment, formulation, and safety planning principles
- Multi-agency working and professional decision-making
- Supporting children, families, schools, and care environments
The training is practical, interactive, and grounded in current research and safeguarding practice.
An optional second day is available for professionals involved in assessment, safeguarding, and decision-making roles.
This advanced workshop focuses on applying learning from Day 1 to complex case studies, strengthening evidence-informed analysis, formulation, risk management, and defensible professional decision-making in practice.
Problematic Sexual Behaviours in an Educational Context
This workshop explores problematic and harmful sexual behaviour within educational settings, supporting professionals to confidently prevent, recognise, and respond to concerns in a safe, proportionate, and child-centred way. Grounded in safeguarding and trauma-informed practice, the training focuses on balancing safety, support, education, and effective professional decision-making.
- Understanding the continuum of sexual behaviours in children and young people
- Recognising problematic and harmful sexual behaviour in schools and colleges
- The impact of peer dynamics, online influences, pornography, trauma, and neurodiversity
- Responding to incidents and managing immediate safeguarding concerns
- Supporting children displaying behaviours alongside those impacted by them
- Risk assessment principles, supervision, and safety planning within educational settings
- Working collaboratively with parents, safeguarding teams, and external agencies
- Creating safer school environments through prevention and early intervention
The training is practical, accessible, and tailored to the realities of educational settings.
An optional second day is available for safeguarding leads, pastoral teams, senior leaders, and professionals involved in complex decision-making.
This advanced workshop uses case studies and applied exercises to strengthen formulation, risk management, safety planning, and evidence-informed professional decision-making in real-world school scenarios.
Problematic Sexual Behaviours: A Parent & Carer Workshop
This one-day workshop is designed for parents, foster carers, kinship carers, adoptive parents, and residential carers supporting a child or young person who has displayed problematic or harmful sexual behaviour. The training provides a safe, supportive, and non-judgemental space to better understand behaviour, reduce fear and shame, and develop practical strategies to promote safety, connection, and healthy development.
- Understanding the continuum of sexual behaviours in children and young people
- Why problematic sexual behaviour may occur and the role of trauma, attachment, neurodiversity, emotional regulation, and online influences
- Recognising risk and protective factors
- Responding calmly and therapeutically while maintaining clear boundaries and accountability
- Practical supervision, support, and safety planning strategies within the home
- Managing sibling relationships, bedrooms, devices, routines, and family dynamics
- Talking to children and young people about bodies, boundaries, consent, and online safety
- Reducing shame and supporting long-term emotional wellbeing for the whole family
The training is practical, compassionate, and grounded in trauma-informed and attachment-focused practice, helping carers feel more confident and supported in managing complex situations.
If you have a question about one of our courses, please contact us.