Extra-Familial Harm

Children may be at risk of or experiencing physical, sexual, or emotional abuse and exploitation in contexts outside their families (see glossary definition of extra-familial contexts).

While there is no legal definition for the term extra-familial harm, it is widely used to describe different forms of harm that occur outside the home.

Children can be vulnerable to multiple forms of extra-familial harm from both adults and/or other children. Examples of extra-familial harm may include (but are not limited to): criminal exploitation (such as county lines and financial exploitation), serious violence, modern slavery and trafficking, online harm, sexual exploitation, child-on-child (nonfamilial) sexual abuse and other forms of harmful sexual behaviour displayed by children towards their peers, abuse, and/or coercive control, children may experience in their own intimate relationships (sometimes called teenage relationship abuse), and the influences of extremism which could lead to radicalisation.

(Definition provided by Working Together 2023)

Prevent

Learn about how the prevent programme aims to stop people being drawn into terrorist activity, who deals with prevent and how you can report concerns.

If you are a professional working with clients that live in Surrey and you have concerns they may be at risk of being drawn into terrorism due to their vulnerabilities, associations or ideology then you can make a referral by completing the Prevent Referral Form. For further information please see Prevent | Healthy Surrey