Publications & Resources

This briefing summarises the key findings from the Responding to child sexual abuse: Learning from children’s services in Wales full report, and outlines the CSA Centre’s recommendations for changes to local and national policy and practice in response.

This report presents the findings from an evaluation of a pilot programme to develop ‘Practice Leads’ in child sexual abuse within a third-sector organisation supporting adults with drug and/or alcohol dependency support needs – who, research suggests, are more likely to have been sexually abused as children.

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 brings together learning from existing research on child sexual abuse perpetration by adults.

This report presents the findings from an evaluation of a pilot programme, delivered by the CSA Centre, to develop ‘CSA Practice Leads’ in the field of social work.

An independent evaluation of the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) from 2017 to 2020. By the University of Bedfordshire, The International Centre and Research in Practice.

A rapid review of the empirical studies describing typologies of child sexual abuse offending and how they were developed. This review focuses on methodology, seeking to identify common limitations of earlier studies and typologies, and how these might be addressed. The findings from the rapid review have been used to inform the CSA Centre's work to develop a new typology of adult offending.

This report presents a new typology of child sexual abuse offending. The new typology of child sexual abuse focuses on the context of offending and drawing out types that reflect different patterns of offending, rather than by focusing on the characteristics of the perpetrator or the victim. The focus of this typology is on offending by adults (18 and over).

The results of the CSA Centre's survey with the aim of building an understanding of the current research landscape related to child sexual abuse and exploitation. The survey was first conducted in 2018 and was repeated in mid-2019, and the findings from both surveys are presented in this report. They provide an insight into the types and forms of research currently being undertaken within the field of child sexual abuse, and the presence of any gaps.

This briefing paper brings together key findings from a suite of three studies carried out as part of our ‘Understanding Effectiveness’ programme of research, which built on our previous work in order to, improve understanding of the effectiveness of services responding to child sexual abuse, and suggest how the CSA Centre can further contribute to this.

The knowledge review was undertaken by DMSS Research in partnership with the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University, between July and December 2018. The report outlines the current landscape of service provision, identifies core elements of effective practice in the field, and outlines the implications for the feasibility of multi-service evaluation.