Publications & Resources

This resource focuses on how to design and implement monitoring and evaluation within child sexual abuse services, and provides information on carrying out internal or external evaluation. It contains accessible step-by-step guidance, including worksheets, to enable users to develop their own monitoring and evaluation systems.

Findings from research conducted with Saint Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) to explore the value and practicability for agencies to collect core data systematically about the nature of child sexual abuse, the people involved in and affected by it, and associated services. This report extracts and analyses narrative data from almost 1,000 case files, using a set of core data fields, to find out about the people who are and are not accessing SARC services.

Between October 2017 and March 2018, The CSA Centre funded 17 providers of child sexual abuse services in England and Wales, so they could improve their capacity to assess and evidence their services’ effectiveness. This report sets out the experiences of the service providers involved, offering valuable insights for the planning of any similar funding projects in the future.

An update of the original July 2017 version, this report brings together a wealth of evidence relating to the scale and nature of child sexual abuse into a single document. It reviews prevalence estimates of child sexual abuse, summarises published research into the scale of child sexual exploitation, and analyses the official data on recorded cases of child sexual abuse that have entered the criminal justice and child protection systems.

This review by the Connect Centre for International Research on Interpersonal Violence, commissioned by the CSA Centre, was produced to inform its work on improving data currently collected in England and Wales. This study looks at differences in self-report survey methodologies to research rates of victimisation and perpetration.

This briefing reflects on the learning from a series of five scoping studies commissioned by the CSA Centre concerning perpetrators of child sexual exploitation, and sets out how the CSA Centre’s next steps will build on this work.

The first report in the Child sexual exploitation perpetrators research programme. This report investigates the backgrounds of young people identified for child sexual exploitation concerns as perpetrators, the nature and range of their sexual behaviours, and the range of victims targeted. It was written by Simon Hackett, Durham University, and Stephen Smith, Durham Constabulary.

The second report in the Child sexual exploitation perpetrators research programme. The report investigates the characteristics of those who commit child sexual abuse and identify the nature and dynamics of their behaviours, their motivations and the way they target and exploit their victims.

The third report in the Child sexual exploitation perpetrators research programme. The report investigates the characteristics of those who commit child sexual exploitation, and identifies the nature and dynamics of their behaviours, their motivations and the way they target and exploit their victims.

The fourth report in the Child sexual exploitation perpetrators research programme. This report ascertains whether any current interventions exist specifically for adult male perpetrators of child sexual exploitation involving physical contact, identifies areas of promising practice and any evidence of their effectiveness, gathers expert views on what an appropriate approach to an effective intervention for this group would be.