NOTA News Newsletter July 2018 1

Contents
3 Editorial
4 Chair’s Welcome
5 From the NOTA
General Manager
6 Prevention Committee
– Jon Brown
7 NOTA Policy & Practice
Subcommittee
– Stuart Allardyce
8 Moving Beyond the “sex
offender” Label
– Dr Gwenda M. Willis
10 The Safer Living Foundation
– Lynn Saunders, OBE
13 Life at HMP Whatton
– Peter
15 NOTA Blog
– Kieran McCartan
16 What’s behind the screen?
– Maggie Brennan
18 “TARGET”
– Hayley Brown
20 Restorative Justice or
Dangerous Liaisons?
– Nadia Wager and Chris Wilson
22 Conceptualising adolescent
exhibitionism
– Dr Celia Sadie and
Dr Sarah Allen
26 Reflections from the Front Line
– Josephine Lay
28 NOTA Creative Arts Corner
– Anna Hutchings
30 Book Review
– Anna Hutchings
31 Branch News
35 Recent Press Releases
– Helen Masson
Editorial - Anna Glinski
Alongside our regular updates from members of the NOTA
committee, news from NOTA branches across the UK and
our overview of recent reports relevant to our field, issue
85 of NOTA News presents a broad selection of articles
relating to both research and practice, across the field of
sexual abuse and offending.
The NOTA Committee has been engaging in a discussion
for some time about changing the name of the charity,
considering whether it continues to reflect the activities
and professionals it seeks to support. Our Chair, Simon
Hackett, and General Manager, Malcolm Muskett, introduce the membership to these
discussions in their updates, while Gwenda Willis, Clinical psychologist & Rutherford
Discovery Fellow, presents the ethical considerations around our use of language when
referring to those who commit sexual offences.
Lynn Saunders (OBE), Governor of HMP Whatton Prison and co-founder of the Safer
Living Foundation, explains the important, innovative and hopeful work of this charity by
giving an overview of the services they deliver to support people who have committed
sexual offences as part of their reintegration back into the community. Following this
we hear from Peter, an inmate at HMP Whatton, who demonstrates the value of serviceuser
involvement in shaping services within the prison.
Kieran McCartan, who has taken on the role of ‘media and engagement’ for NOTA,
calls for articles from the membership for the NOTA blog, introducing an example of a
recent blog written by Maggie Brennan on her research into the nature of child sexual
abuse and exploitation images currently being identified online. Remaining on a
similar theme, Hayley Brown presents the work of Service Six in Northampton, who are
working to support and educate children and young people, and the professionals who
support them, on being safe online.
We go on to hear from Nadia Wager and Chris Wilson who summarise their interesting
research into those who volunteer with Circles of Support and Accountability, exploring
perceptions of, and by, volunteers who are themselves survivors of sexual abuse.
NOTA News is keen to encourage articles from practitioners on issues that arise
in practice. This edition hosts two such reflections; Celia Sadie and Clare Hall, on
exhibitionism in a young offender’s setting, and Josephine Lay, on working with
children and young people with learning disabilities who have been sexually abused,
both providing thought-provoking and helpful reflections on their practice with these
two groups.
In the last edition we introduced a new feature, NOTA Creative Arts Corner; this edition
Anna Hutchings interviews the authors of a graphic novel for young people on consent,
who talk about the journey from their initial idea to publication. Anna goes on to review
a new text ‘Working with Children and Young People Who Have Displayed Harmful
Sexual Behaviour’ by Stuart Allardyce and Peter Yates, which is likely to leave no doubt
in the minds of anyone working in this field about investing in this book.
Any feedback or suggestions for future copy are, as always, gratefully received.
Anna Glinski, Editor, NOTA News
notanews@nota.co.uk
www.nota.co.uk conference@nota.co.uk @notaevents
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