UK: Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) released guide on communicating with children who have or may have been sexually abused
Background
- Studies suggest that 15% of girls and 5% of boys experience some form of sexual abuse before the age of 16
- Many professionals who work with children lack the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to identify possible indicators of child sexual abuse and respond effectively to them
- Professionals often wait for child to first talk about the abuse, putting the weight of stopping child sexual abuse on the child
- Aim to reduce the impact of child sexual abuse through improved prevention and better response
- Improve knowledge and understanding of nature and scale of child sexual abuse
- Improve identification of and response to all children who have experienced sexual abuse
- Enable more effective disruption of child abuse through better understanding of the subject
- Multi-disciplinary team working closely with academic institutions, local authorities, health, education police and the voluntary sector
- Adressing gaps in knowledge by producing and share information about child sexual abuse
- Develop a multi-agency Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway and resources
- Engage with professionals and provide training and support for professionals
- Funded by the Home Office
The Guide (released Feb 2022)
- Seeks to help give professionals the knowledge and confidence to act for children who are or may be victims of child sexual abuse
- Aims to help communicate with children in relation to child sexual abuse, including when concerns arise that such abuse is happening
- Explains what may be going on for children when they are being sexually abused
- Explains what prevents children from telling about their abuse
- Explains what professionals can do to help children tell them what is happening
- Aims to help professionals respond to, have the knowledge about and consider the situation each child is in
- Provides guidance of how conversations with children can be planned and conducted
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