Anna heads up the Practice Improvement Team at the CSA Centre, leading our work creating practice resources, devising training and advising individuals and organisations on how to improve their response to child sexual abuse.

Anna is a qualified social worker and prior to joining the CSA Centre worked within statutory front line child protection and specialist services as a practitioner and manager. She was the practice development lead for child sexual abuse within East Sussex children’s services, and contributed to local and regional service and policy development. Here she developed and led a multi-disciplinary specialist sexual abuse team, which provided assessments, interventions, supervision, consultation and training.

Anna has specialised in child sexual abuse work for the majority of her career, including acting as an expert witness in the family courts on child sexual abuse case in her previous role.

In her current role Anna offers expert input on a number of national strategic projects relating to child sexual abuse. She is an Associate Tutor at the University of Sussex and is the Editor of NOTA News, the quarterly magazine for members of the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abuse.