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Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Harmful sexual behaviour is a term used when referring to sexual harassment and violence including: rape, assault by penetration and sexual assault. Sexual harassment is ‘unwanted conduct of a sexual nature’ that can occur online and offline. It is likely to violate a child’s dignity, and/or makes them feel intimidated, degraded or humiliated and/or creates a hostile, offensive or sexualised environment.

Any incidents of harmful sexual behaviour are taken extremely seriously and may be reported by pupils, staff or members of the public. Appropriate actions may be taken with external agencies, police and parents/ guardians and are completed in a timely manner. Further actions may be taken against the offender in conjunction with the academy’s behaviour policy.

Useful links

Suffolk Safeguarding partnership 

Concerned about a child? Please use the link below if you wish to report

https://suffolksp.org.uk/concerned/

NSPCC 

Call us 0808 800 5000 or email help@nspcc.org.uk 

Stop It Now! 

Confidential Helpline: 0808 1000 900

Documents

In this section...

New online safety priorities for Ofcom and effects of social media on children

Policies and guidance

Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) and Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)

Find My Kids App

Do you want to tell us anything?

E-Safety

Child to parent abuse

Domestic Violence

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

See also...

Wellbeing

Top 15 most dangerous apps for children

Safeguarding: Social Media & Mental Health

Parent and carers guide to live streaming

Safeguarding: Instagram

The ABC online safety checklist

Safeguarding

Safeguarding: X

Youtube - Supervised Experience

Safeguarding: BeReal

Explore...

NHS 111 mental health support

Why Failure Hits Girls So Hard and How to Help Them Embrace It

Caught In The Web

TwitBook - Can you spot the problems with this profile page?

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

24/7 Text support for Mental Health

New...

Film post-production explained

Expressionism

Joint letter from Ofqual and UCAS to students, summer 2025

Sixth Form Course Information

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

Online safety newsletters

How Ofcom is helping children to be safer online – a guide for parents

Computer Science

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Safeguarding Wellbeing Internet Safety School Nurse Health Sexual Behaviour TIME Careers In Film | Film Schools & Colleges Revision Internet Rachel Simmons ZEN Year 7 Computing Careers Buster Keaton Prospectus A Level Guidance Parent College Support Games

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