Simon Hackett is Professor of Child Abuse and Neglect at Durham University, UK. His research into children and youth who display harmful sexual behaviours is internationally known, including a study of long-term outcomes for children and young people between ten and twenty years after the initial identification of their sexually abusive behaviours. He was part of the NICE Public Health Advisory Committee which has established the first UK national guidance on early interventions for harmful sexual behaviours. He has given evidence to the UK Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and previously supported the Australian Royal Commission on this topic. He is immediate past Chair of NOTA in the UK and Republic of Ireland and is currently a member of the ATSA Board. Simon and Pat are co-authors of the HSB operational framework second edition.
