The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is developing public health guidance on ‘Harmful sexual behaviour: identifying and helping children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviour’

To inform the guidance, a number of public health evidence reviews are being conducted to address the key questions that are set out in the scope.

Further information on this guidance update, including the final scope, is available on the NICE website at: http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/GID-PHG66

The Centre for Public Health at NICE would like to receive details of any evidence that relates to the questions outlined in the scope (included below):

• Question 1: What are the most effective and cost-effective multi-agency approaches to identifying and helping children and young people whose sexual behaviour indicates the need for assessment.
• Question 2:How effective and cost effective are different models or tools in assessing the level of seriousness of children and young people’s sexual behaviour?
• Question 3:How effective and cost effective are assessment tools designed to identify the level of risk posed by, and address the needs of, children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviour?
• Question 4: What types of intervention, including family and carer interventions, are effective and cost effective for children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviour?

The CPH is interested in identifying studies that have recently been published, in-press, ongoing research studies (academic in confidence) or grey literature that relate to these review questions.

The CPH are particularly interested in evidence that may help to better promote equality of opportunity relating to age, disability, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, religion and belief, sexual orientation or socio-economic status.

Please note that the following material is not eligible for consideration:

• Promotional material.
• Unsubstantiated or non-evidence-based assertions of effectiveness.
• Opinion pieces
• Forms with attachments of published material, or hard copy of published material

Published material

Please send either full reference details (which are to include author/s, title, date, journal or publication details including volume and issue number and page numbers), not a PDF/WORD attachment or hard copy, using this form by 5pm 7 January 2015 to SexuallyHarmfulBehaviour@nice.org.uk

Unpublished material

If you are aware of trials/ongoing research relevant to the review questions which are in progress please could you help us to identify that information by providing relevant information such as a link to a registered trial with the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Clinical Trials).

http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/cochrane_clcentral_articles_fs.html

If you wish to submit academic in confidence material i.e. written but not yet published, or commercial in confidence i.e. internal documentation, please could you highlight which sections are confidential by using the highlighter function in Word.

Please send using this form any relevant evidence details by 5pm 7 January, 2015 to SexuallyHarmfulBehaviour@nice.org.uk 

We look forward to receiving information on this and thank you in advance for your help.