Publications & Resources

This resource is designed to guide professionals' thinking in supporting children of any age, including those with special education needs, following incidents of harmful sexual behaviour. It is for all professionals in schools and other places of learning for children (including pupil referral units and special schools), not just Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs). The guide includes the CSA Centre's school safety plan template (also downloadable separately as a Word document), for use for use by DSLs during and after safety planning meetings for children involved in incidents of harmful sexual behaviour.

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.

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 This has been superseded by the second edition of the guide, published in April 2025.

The multi-agency Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Practice Leads Programme was piloted between October 2020 and March 2021 in two Welsh local authority areas. A small group of professionals from a range of agencies in those areas were selected by their managers to take part. This report details the results of the pilot and participant feedback.

This learning report summarises findings from the CSA Centre’s self-evaluation of the online delivery of its a one-day introductory course for students and its three-day ‘train the trainer’ course for HEIs’ staff members, based on feedback surveys completed by the participants.

This report presents feedback from participants in the CSA Centre's introductory one-day multi-agency training course on intra-familial child sexual abuse, as delivered online to professionals in three London local authority areas and across Wales between November 2020 and March 2021.

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 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.