Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Resource Hub
The Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Resource Hub provides a central point of access to information, guidance, tools, services and learning materials to support the prevention, recognition and response to child sexual abuse. The hub brings together resources for parents and carers, children and young people, professionals, and survivors, helping individuals access the support, knowledge and practical guidance they need. It includes awareness resources, practice tools, training materials, research, survivor support services and safeguarding guidance to promote informed, confident and effective responses to child sexual abuse.
Support for Parents and Carers
Support for Young People
Support for Professionals
Support for Survivors of CSA
Support for Parents and Carers
Intro
Resources
- Keeping Children Safe from Sexual Exploitation (Welsh Government Easy Read)
- Family Safety Plan – A guide to Parents to Keep Children Safe from Sexual Abuse
- Stop it Now: Parents Protect Programme
- Stop it Now: Information for Families on Keeping Children with Learning Disabilities Safe from Sexual Exploitation
- Stop it Now: Child Sexual Abuse Prevention What we All Need to Know
Services
Support for Young People
Intro
Resources
- NSPCC: Let’s Talk Pants
- Childline: Getting Through a Tough Time
- Childline: Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships
- Childline: Sex and Relationships
- Childline: Sexting and Nudes
- Brook Website: Confidential Sexual Health and Wellbeing Support
- STAR: Checking Up or Checking In
- STAR: Getting Through a Tough Time
- STAR: Relationships that Hurt
- Childline: You have the Right to be Safe (Over 12s)
- Childline: You have the Right to be Safe (Under 12s)
- Barnardo’s: Resources for Children and Young People at Risk of Sexual Exploitation
Services
Support for Professionals
Intro
Tools
- Communicating with Children when there are Concerns about Sexual Abuse or Behaviour
- A Guide for those Working with Children who have or may have been Sexually Abused
- Signs and Indicators Template
- Supporting Parents and Carers Guide
- “But they must have known!”: Effectively Working with Non-abusing Parents
- NSPCC: Child Sexual Abuse Statistics Briefing
- Managing Risk and Trauma after Online Sexual Offending
- Harmful Sexual Behaviour Framework
- Understanding Sexualised Behaviour in Children
- Understanding and Responding to Sibling Sexual Harm and Abuse
- Keeping Our Children Safe
- “I Never Spoke About It”: Supporting Sexually Exploited Boys and Young Men in Wales
- Warning Signs in Adults: Finkelhor Model
- Talk Relationships: Resources to Deliver Sex and Relationships Education
- Resources on Harmful Sexual Behaviour in Schools
- Keeping Children Safe From Child Sexual Exploitation
- Step Up, Speak Up!”: Teaching Toolkit
- Speak Out Stay Safe: Primary School Poster
- Speak Out Stay Safe: Secondary School Poster
- Disclosing Child Sexual Abuse: Children and Young People’s Experiences
- ThinkUKnow Website: Advice from CEOP
- Children and Young People who Engage in Technology Assisted Harmful Sexual Behaviour
Learning
- CSA Centre: Support Matters
- Recommendations for Change: An NSPCC Learning Podcast series about IICSA
- The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
- Children’s Commissioner for Wales: How has the Welsh Government Progressed on the Recommendations from IICSA?
- Briefing Paper: Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse Recommendations (Wales)
- National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
- CSA Centre: eLearning
- Multi-agency Response to Child Sexual Abuse in the Family Environment: Joint Targeted Area Inspections
Support for Survivors of CSA
Intro
Services
- Cardiff and Vale University Health Board: Ynys Staff Sexual Assault Referral Centre
- New Pathways Website: Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Support Services
- NSPCC: Letting the Future In
- We Stand Website
- GOV.UK: Support and Resources for Victims and Survivors of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
- Self Help Website: Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Assault