Developing your strategic response to child sexual abuse

Join us for our free webinar to learn our resource: Developing your strategic response to child sexual abuse: A guide for safeguarding children partnerships. 

Survey data suggests that child sexual abuse is just as common as other forms of childhood harm including emotional and physical abuse, but it is much less likely to be identified by safeguarding professionals. Sadly, this is prevalent in all parts of the country, and it is estimated that 500,000 children will experience some form of in-person contact child sexual abuse each year in England and Wales. 

All safeguarding children partnerships have a leadership role to play in developing responses to child sexual abuse, so that all children and young people receive the protection and support they need, wherever they live. In 2024, the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s review into child sexual abuse within the family environment recommended that all safeguarding partnerships should “develop a local action plan to respond to its recommendations as it affects local multi-agency practice,” to help overcome local strategic challenges in identifying and responding to this abuse. 

To help, the CSA Centre’s Developing your strategic response to child sexual abuse: A guide for safeguarding children partnerships guide enables partnerships to develop an effective, evidence-based strategy which covers the each part of their response to child sexual abuse. 

About the webinar

This free webinar designed for professionals from local and regional safeguarding children’s partnerships covers how to use the Developing your strategic response to child sexual abuse guide in your own work.

This webinar explains what the guide can help you understand your partnership’s local and regional context, the key components of an effective response to child sexual abuse, and how to put your strategy into practice.