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Guide to understanding developmentally appropriate sexual behaviour
Author: Dr Andrew Durham, independent child care consultant, consultant practitioner, Sexualised Inappropriate Behaviours Service, Warwickshire County Council BIOG
Last Updated: 08 September 2011
Publication Date: 15 January 2008
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Introduction
Stages of sexual development
A six-step cumulative framework for assessing sexual behaviour
Defining child sexual abuse and inappropriate or harmful sexual behaviour
Inappropriate or harmful sexual behaviour
Contact and non-contact behaviours
Feeling safe and being safe leaflet
Feeling Safe and Being Safe - information for young people about healthy relationships
References
Introduction
In working with children and young people, it is important to have a clear understanding of what constitutes "normal" or appropriate sexual behaviour across the developmental phases of childhood.
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