Support for professionals
Gweres Kernow provides advice and guidance for professionals. This is to help them support children and young people who display concerning or harmful sexual behaviours.
The team has developed a continuum of responses. These start with early community-based identification and support with younger children. We also carry out intensive work with the more challenging and complex young people.
Our work can include
- safety planning
- case formulation
- specialist assessment and intervention
We ensure that children and families are offered the right level of support. This is provided by suitably trained and skilled workers. We offer support and guidance to earlier interventions where possible. We also promote the use of frontline agencies and encourage inter-agency work. This is the most effective way of managing this group of children and young people. It promotes a collaborative approach and reduces isolation and the anxieties of professionals.
We work with children and young people up to age 18, and sometimes older than that. We use Hackett’s continuum, of harmful sexual behaviours to indicate the level of concern. We also use the Brook traffic light tool. These will determine the level of intervention we feel is appropriate. Professionals can make contact with Gweres Kernow and arrange a consultation via Teams.
For more information on the support we can provide, and how to get in touch, please download the leaflet below.
Work force development
Gweres Kernow is a member of the National Organisation of the Treatment of Abuse (NOTA). We have access to specialist training and development opportunities. Please get in touch if you wish to learn more about these.