Publications & Resources

This framework provides a structured approach to developing the knowledge, skills and professional confidence required to prevent, identify and respond to child sexual abuse. It is designed for everyone who is responsible for the learning and development of people who work (or who manage or have strategic oversight of those who work) with children and families, across all sectors and levels of experience.

This knowledge review provides an exploratory overview of the existing research and resources on the needs of, and support available for, the non-abusing parents and carers of sexually abused children. In addition to mapping what is currently known about the impact of this abuse on the child’s parents, the importance of parental support for children, how parents care for their children, the barriers they face in seeking and receiving support, and the role of professionals, it highlights the main gaps in the evidence base.

This report brings together the latest evidence from official agency records (covering the year 2024/25) and major surveys to set out what is and is not known about the scale and nature of child sexual abuse in England and Wales.

This guide aims to support leaders to create the system conditions, leadership, governance, accountability and workforce capability required to implement the Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway in a strategic, evidence-informed, and sustainable way. It includes links to several helpful resources to support implementation.

A CSA Centre guide aimed primarily at anyone responsible for funding and commissioning services in England and Wales relating to child sexual abuse. This includes, but is not limited to, local authorities, NHS England and NHS Wales, Integrated Care Boards and Police and Crime Commissioners. Includes a support audit tool document.

A CSA Centre guide aimed primarily at anyone responsible for funding and commissioning services for adults in England and Wales in relation to child sexual abuse. This includes, but is not limited to, local authorities, NHS England and NHS Wales, the Department of Health and Social Care, Integrated Care Boards and Police and Crime Commissioners

This guide is designed to help education settings to implement a whole-school approach to child sexual abuse. The framework provides evidence-based resources and learning to help professionals review how well their education setting understands, prevents and responds to all forms of child sexual abuse, and support improvement activity.

This Support Matters report focuses specifically on specialist services and support for parents and carers of sexually abused children, analysing data collected by the CSA Centre in both 2022/2023 and 2024

Our ‘Key messages from research’ papers 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 focuses on child sexual exploitation and is an update of the original suite of papers published in 2017.

This is a policing professional-specific version of our resource introducing some of the key research and statistics on what is known about child sexual abuse: what it is, who harms children, where it takes place, the impact on children and crucially what we all can do in response.