Harmful Sexual Behaviour

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AIM stands for Assessment Intervention and Moving On.

AIM is an assessment process used to assess children and young people who have engaged in Harmful Sexual Behaviour including those who may have committed a sexual offence.

Trained and experienced assessors work with the child, their family and professionals to ensure proportionate safety plans are in place, understand what might be driving the harmful sexual behaviour, and identify unmet need that may partly explain the behaviour.

Assessors recommended interventions may help reduce the likelihood of the harmful sexual behaviour happening again.

There are three kinds of AIM assessment;

• AIM3 or adolescents over the age of 12 years.
• AIM3 Under 12’s for younger children.
• TA-HSB for children who solely used technology to engage in harmful sexual behaviour.

Sometimes AIM3 and TA-HSB are used together if the child’s HSB covers both contact and technology assisted harmful sexual behaviours.

We are fortunate to be able to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to AIM assessment, having trained and experiences assessors in all types of AIM assessment who bring disciplinary expertise and a depth of experience in multi-agency working from health, policing, education, social care, and youth justice. 

This means that we will always be able to find the right combination of 

co-working and peer supervision of AIM assessments where this is needed, and we can ensure that analysis and case formulation activity is multi-disciplinary so it remains robust and effective.

There are three other reasons why you should consider Woodland Baines for this kind of sensitive work;

• We consulted for the Home Office and supported practitioners working on the Home Office funded Harmful Sexual Behaviour Programme.  

• Our safeguarding supervision training, expertise and experience extends to the supervision of specialist AIM assessment and intervention case work.

• We have a depth of understanding and experience of the youth justice system and wider criminal justice contexts which really helps if a child's behaviour brings them into contact with the police, youth justice and children's social care services.