Publications & Resources

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 This has been superseded by the second edition of the guide, published in April 2025.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.

This learning report summarises findings from the CSA Centre’s self-evaluation of the online delivery of its a one-day introductory course for students and its three-day ‘train the trainer’ course for HEIs’ staff members, based on feedback surveys completed by the participants.

This report presents feedback from participants in the CSA Centre's introductory one-day multi-agency training course on intra-familial child sexual abuse, as delivered online to professionals in three London local authority areas and across Wales between November 2020 and March 2021.

This research study was commissioned by the CSA Centre to explore the ways in which police forces across England and Wales seek to disrupt child sexual abuse. It uses an online survey of frontline officers and staff across 32 police force areas in England and Wales, and strategic leads across 20 forces to better understand current police practice, challenges and enablers in disrupting child sexual abuse.

This report sets out the findings from a scoping review of existing literature to explore the existing literature on the use of disruption measures by police forces in relation to child sexual abuse, and the effectiveness of those measures.

This template has been designed to support professionals across a range of organisations and agencies in systematically observing, recording and communicating their concerns about possible child sexual abuse.

This small-scale exploratory study considers the extent to which all forms of child sexual abuse feature in the work of professionals working within a complex safeguarding team. The findings highlight the complexities of language used around child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation, and the challenges professionals face in addressing concerns of child sexual abuse – especially without verbal disclosure - while working to build and maintain relationships of trust with young people.

Our 2021 report bringing together the latest evidence from surveys and official agency records to set out what is and is not known about the scale and nature of child sexual abuse in England and Wales.

A small-scale study produced for the CSA Centre by the Race Equality Foundation (REF) to explore the perspectives of professionals working with children from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds who have experienced child sexual abuse. The research consisted of interviews with 16 professionals working in the voluntary sector and across local authorities.