Publications & Resources

Our 2022/23 report brings together data from children’s social care, policing, criminal justice and health, building a picture of how agencies identify and respond to child sexual abuse and providing a unique insight into changing trends in practice. It also reports on recent developments relating to the collection and use of official data about child sexual abuse: both its prevalence and the response to it.

Our in-depth report presenting the detailed findings from the CSA Centre's first comprehensive study of the 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 for use along side our interactive data improvement tool.

The 2021/22 edition of this annually published report brings together data from children’s social care, policing, criminal justice and health to build a picture of official agencies' identification of and response to child sexual abuse, providing a unique insight into 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.

This report sets out the findings from a scoping review of existing literature to explore the existing literature on the use of disruption measures by police forces in relation to child sexual abuse, and the effectiveness of those measures.

This small-scale exploratory study considers the extent to which all forms of child sexual abuse feature in the work of professionals working within a complex safeguarding team. The findings highlight the complexities of language used around child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation, and the challenges professionals face in addressing concerns of child sexual abuse – especially without verbal disclosure - while working to build and maintain relationships of trust with young people.

Our 2021 report bringing together the latest evidence from surveys and official agency records to set out what is and is not known about the scale and nature of child sexual abuse in England and Wales.