Publications & Resources

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 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

The full 2025 Support Matters 2025 report. It presents the findings of the CSA Centre's comprehensive study of the current landscape of service provision in response to child sexual abuse in England & Wales, conducted in late 2024.

Our 2023/24 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.

This review commissioned by the CSA Centre and Barnardo’s SEEN draws on 79 publications, based on 59 separate research projects, and four focus group sessions with African, Asian and Caribbean heritage academics, professionals and experts by experience. It explores the nature of sexual abuse, its impacts, the barriers that prevent children talking about it, and how concerns about it are identified and responded to, both within communities and by services. It recommends further research to inform and drive improvements.

This overview summarises the findings and implications arising from the CSA Centre's Support Matters research, focusing on the support available for adult victims/survivors of child sexual abuse.

This overview summarises the findings and implications arising from the CSA Centre's Support Matters research, focusing on the support available for children who have been sexually abused and their parents. It also briefly looks at support provision for children who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviour.

Our 2022/23 report brings together data from children’s social care, policing, criminal justice and health, building a picture of how agencies identify and respond to child sexual abuse and providing a unique insight into changing trends in practice. It also reports on recent developments relating to the collection and use of official data about child sexual abuse: both its prevalence and the response to it.

Our in-depth report presenting the detailed findings from the CSA Centre's first comprehensive study of the landscape of service provision in response to child sexual abuse in England & Wales.