Publications & Resources

This review commissioned by the CSA Centre and Barnardo’s SEEN draws on 79 publications, based on 59 separate research projects, and four focus group sessions with African, Asian and Caribbean heritage academics, professionals and experts by experience. It explores the nature of sexual abuse, its impacts, the barriers that prevent children talking about it, and how concerns about it are identified and responded to, both within communities and by services. It recommends further research to inform and drive improvements.

This overview summarises the findings and implications arising from the CSA Centre's Support Matters research, focusing on the support available for adult victims/survivors of child sexual abuse.

This overview summarises the findings and implications arising from the CSA Centre's Support Matters research, focusing on the support available for children who have been sexually abused and their parents. It also briefly looks at support provision for children who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviour.

Our 2022/23 report brings together data from children’s social care, policing, criminal justice and health, to build a picture of how agencies identify and respond to child sexual abuse and provide a unique insight into the changing trends in practice.

The full report of Support Matters: The landscape of child sexual abuse support services in England and Wales. It presents the findings of the CSA Centre's comprehensive study of the current landscape of service provision in response to child sexual abuse in England & Wales.

The foreword and executive summary of report of Support Matters: The landscape of child sexual abuse support services in England and Wales. It presents a summary of the findings of the CSA Centre's comprehensive study of the current landscape of service provision in response to child sexual abuse in England & Wales.

Update of the original 2019 version. This guide offers much-needed practical advice for organisations about the data they collect on child sexual abuse, and how they should record it. It sets out 21 core items of data which all organisations responding to child sexual abuse should try to collect. It has been designed to use along side our interactive data improvement tool.

Our 2021/22 report brings together data from children’s social care, policing, criminal justice and health, to build a picture of how agencies identify and respond to child sexual abuse and provide a unique insight into the changing trends in practice.

Our 2020/21 report brings together data from children’s social care, policing, criminal justice and health, to build a picture of how agencies identify and respond to child sexual abuse and provide a unique insight into the changing trends in practice.

This research study was commissioned by the CSA Centre to explore the ways in which police forces across England and Wales seek to disrupt child sexual abuse. It uses an online survey of frontline officers and staff across 32 police force areas in England and Wales, and strategic leads across 20 forces to better understand current police practice, challenges and enablers in disrupting child sexual abuse.