Nick Marsh
Care versus control: reflections on child protection practiceschevron_right
Our Practice Improvement Advisor (Multi Agency), Nick Marsh, writes about his recent trip to Australia and sharing learning internationally about working with adolescents who have experienced extra-familial sexual abuse.
Jane Wiffin
Don't wait for them to tell us: recognising and responding to signs of child sexual abusechevron_right
This week the CSA centre published ‘Key messages from research on identifying and responding to disclosures of child sexual abuse’. In this blog our Practice Improvement Advisor for Social Work, Jane Wiffin, reflects on what those key messages mean for the safety of children and young people and what needs to be done within the statutory child protection system to best respond when children signal or speak out about the abuse and harm they are experiencing.
Sherrelle Parke
Local challenges to addressing the exploitation of childrenchevron_right
Senior Research and Evaluation Officer, Sherrelle Parke, reflects on the challenges local authorities face, and why bridging the gap with research knowledge is welcome on the front line.
Dr Michelle Cutland
The value of medical examinations for concerns of CSAchevron_right
Our Practice Improvement Advisor for Health, Dr Michelle Cutland, reflects on improving understanding of the paediatric medical examination for concerns of CSA and the importance of professional curiosity.
Cassi Harrison
A new Director for the CSA Centrechevron_right
Our Director, Cassandra Harrison, announces a change in leadership for the CSA Centre.
Dr Sophie Laws
Research from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abusechevron_right
This blog is part of a series where our Deputy Director for Research and Evaluation, Dr Sophie Laws, highlights research done by other people (not the CSA Centre) that improves understanding of child sexual abuse.
Dr Sophie Laws
Learning from adult survivorschevron_right
This blog is part of a series where our Deputy Director for Research and Evaluation, Dr Sophie Laws, highlights research done by other people (not the CSA Centre) that improves understanding of child sexual abuse.
Kairika Karsna
Uncovering the scale of child sexual abuse in social care recordschevron_right
Senior Research and Evaluation Officer Kairika Karsna explains how local authorities in Wales can help us uncover the truer extent of CSA encountered by social services.
Dr Sophie Laws
Intra-familial abuse: learning from children and young peoplechevron_right
This blog is the first in a series where our Deputy Director for Research and Evaluation, Dr Sophie Laws, highlights research done by other people (not the CSA Centre) that improves understanding of child sexual abuse.
Dr Gregory Hall
Thinking about what workschevron_right
Gregory outlines some of the challenges involved in evaluating and commissioning effective services and how the CSA Centre is working to improve understanding of ‘what works’.
Cassi Harrison
Improving our response to child sexual abusechevron_right
Cassi reflects on giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, the challenges we face in preventing and responding to CSA and how we can improve our capacity to better protect children.
Dr Gregory Hall
Risk tools, risk-talk and relationshipschevron_right
Gregory looks at the difficulties of assessing risk in relation to CSE and lays out how the CSA Centre is working to explore and address some of these issues.
Dr Gregory Hall
Knowledge and practice blogchevron_right
Gregory explores the question 'How common is child sexual abuse?', what the research currently tells us and what that means for practice.
Blog posts give the views of the author, and are not necessarily those of the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse.
