Publications & Resources

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.

In 2021, the CSA Centre was commissioned by the London Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP) to design and deliver a holistic package of support to improve the identification and response to child sexual abuse in three London boroughs: Barking & Dagenham, Ealing, and Hackney. This report details the results and feedback from participants.

In 2022, the CSA Centre piloted two training courses for police officers and staff to supplement existing training provision in police forces and address knowledge gaps around identifying and responding to child sexual abuse. This report details the results of the pilot and participant feedback.

This guide has been developed to help safeguarding teams and wider education staff talk to and provide a supportive response to parents when concerns about sexual abuse have been raised, or when such abuse has been identified.

This guide aims to help anyone working in education provision in England and Wales to communicate with and support children in situations where sexual abuse is suspected or identified.

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.