Publications & Resources

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.

A short specific briefing which draws on the research findings in Support Matters: The landscape of child sexual abuse support services in England and Wales to prioritise information to aid funders and commissioners of services, and to policymakers. The briefing sets out the implications of the findings and poses questions to support reflection and review.

A guide for local partnerships to support the introduction of the Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway in their locality.

Our ‘Key messages from research’ papers aim to provide succinct, relevant information for frontline practitioners and commissioners. They bring together the most up-to-date research into an accessible overview, supporting confident provision of the best possible responses to child sexual abuse. This paper focused on children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviours in online contexts.

This paper brings together learning from existing research on child sexual abuse committed by adults in online contexts, the people who commit that abuse, and their victims. It is designed to be read alongside Key messages from research on child sexual abuse perpetrated by adults and Key messages from research on harmful sexual behaviour in online contexts, both published by the CSA Centre.

This practice guide is intended to help professionals navigate key decisions at the various stages of a case where there are concerns about sexual behaviour involving siblings. Such behaviour may range from developmentally appropriate through inappropriate or problematic to abusive.

Our ‘Key messages from research’ papers aim to provide succinct, relevant information for frontline practitioners and commissioners. They bring together the most up-to-date research into an accessible overview, supporting confident provision of the best possible responses to child sexual abuse. This paper on child sexual abuse with family settings is an update of the original 2018 edition.