Judith Milner introduces the work of Barnardo's The Junction with children whose sexualised behaviour threatens their foster placement stability. A safety building approach to working with children, their carers and teachers is described, using examples of work carried out with children taken into care after discovery that they have been both sexually abused and abusive in their birth families.
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