Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse
Our aim is to reduce the impact of child sexual abuse through improved prevention and better response.
Child sexual abuse of African, Asian and Caribbean heritage children
The CSA Centre and Barnardo’s SEEN have published the first overview of research in relation to the sexual abuse of African, Asian and Caribbean heritage children.
Popular Resources
Managing risk and trauma after online sexual offending
The scale and nature of child sexual abuse
Latest courses
Multi-agency
Communicating with children when you have concerns of sexual abuse course
Multi-agency
Sibling sexual behaviour and abuse: A course for safeguarding professionals
Multi-agency
Harmful sexual behaviour in online contexts course
Read our blogs
20 Jun 2024
Artificially generated child sexual abuse images: Understanding and responding to concerns
Lisa McCrindle
22 Feb 2024
Setting the story straight on Cleveland
Anna Glinski
04 Jan 2024
Keeping child sexual abuse on the agenda
Ian Dean
Upcoming events
Webinar
Putting the Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway into practice
Webinar
Spotting the signs and indicators of child sexual abuse
Webinar
Supporting parents / carers when their child may have been sexually abused
About us
Since we were founded in 2017, the CSA Centre has sought to improve the understanding of and response to child sexual abuse.
Funded by the Home Office and hosted by Barnardo’s, our team collates and analyses existing research, policy, practice, and the experiences of survivors, to allow us to fill the gaps with new research, insights and analysis.
With a multi-disciplinary team, we then use that evidence and insight to develop new approaches and apply learning in practice through training and resources.
By professionals, researchers, policymakers, businesses and communities working together, we believe that we can tackle child sexual abuse.