Publications & Resources

The guide is designed to help professionals provide a supportive response to parents/carers when concerns about the sexual abuse of their child have been raised, or when such abuse has been identified. This includes situations where the child may have been sexually abused by an adult or adults, or experienced another child’s harmful sexual behaviour, whether inside or outside their family environment.

The first edition of the CSA Centre's practice guide designed to help professionals communicate with the children they work with in relation to child sexual abuse, including when they have concerns that such abuse is happening. This has been superseded by the second edition of the guide, published in April 2025.

This template has been designed to support professionals across a range of organisations and agencies in systematically observing, recording and communicating their concerns about possible child sexual abuse.

This paper helps professionals think through the issues and challenges raised by sibling sexual abuse, presenting an overview of current research and practice knowledge. After describing the range of sexual behaviour between siblings, it covers the scale and nature of sibling sexual abuse, its impact, and professional responses to it.

A report aimed at professionals involved in advising and referring children, young people and families, so they can better understand the role and purpose of a medical examination in situations where child sexual abuse has been disclosed or is suspected. In addition to showing how medical examinations can obtain evidence of abuse and provide broader health and wellbeing benefits (by identifying a range of unmet physical and mental health needs), the report reviews the limited evidence on how medical examinations are experienced by victims/survivors of child sexual abuse.