Supporting families affected by online sexual offending
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Children's Services | Families/Parenting
When a parent is found to have viewed child sexual abuse...
Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Examples of effective multi-agency practice to combat CSA and CSE, and guidance to identify and support those at risk. View our archive of case studies and features.
In-depth
Legal Update: Keeping children in care safe
- Children's Services | Children's rights | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Legal | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
CoramBAAF head of policy, research and development James...
How I Got Here: Claire Scott, child exploitation caseworker
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Claire Scott, child exploitation caseworker at Catch22, on...
CEOP ambassador programme trains education staff
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Training scheme helps staff, parents and children understand...
Online Safety Bill: Key measures and concerns
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
The Online Safety Bill sets out the case for a new...
Digital Safeguarding Special Report
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Children have never been more connected, with many able to...
Legal Update: The Online Safety Bill
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Children's Services | Children's rights | Legal | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
With the delay of the Online Safety Bill, the UK should not...
Inspections Clinic: Multi-agency safeguarding
- Safeguarding and child protection | Social Care | Preventing Care Proceedings | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Attachment & Neglect
After a pandemic-induced hiatus, joint targeted area...
Rochdale multi-agency team supports CSE victims
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Award-winning multi-agency team tackles all forms of...
Project helps Essex young people vulnerable to exploitation
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Service supports young people to reduce risk-taking...
Newcastle centre trains young people to deliver abuse awareness sessions
- Health | Sexual health | PSHE Education | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Peer educator programme developed after young people said...
Digital simulation helps practitioners spot signs of abuse
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Education | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
NSPCC teams up with software provider to develop a computer...
Digital Innovation in Social Care: Special Report
- Social Care | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings
The pandemic has required children’s social care to embrace...
Enhanced trauma-informed approach helps practitioners build better relationships with homeless young people
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Homelessness charity in West Midlands uses...
Trauma-informed Practice: Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Social Care | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings | Youth Offending | Leaving Care | Adoption | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Adverse childhood experiences can have far-reaching negative...
Contextual Safeguarding helps Wiltshire to hone social work practice
- Safeguarding and child protection | Social Care | Children's Services | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Wiltshire County Council is developing and implementing a...
Contextual Safeguarding: Special Report
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Contextual Safeguarding looks at factors beyond the home to...
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Special Report
- Children's Services | Early help | Health | Mental health | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings
Research has shown that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)...
Joint targeted area inspections: Inspections clinic
- Children's Services | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Ofsted | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Attachment & Neglect
Joint targeted area inspections began in 2016 with the aim...
The contextual safeguarding debate
- Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Local authority leaders discussed how they are using...
Streamlined system marks new era for safeguarding children
- Social Care | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Replacing LSCBs with partnerships between councils, police...
Trafficking, modern slavery and the NRM
- Children's rights | Legal | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Recent changes to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) will...
Gangs and Criminal Exploitation: Special Report
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
A rise in gang violence and youth crime has prompted...
Domestic Abuse: Special Report
- Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Cases of domestic abuse recorded by police and children's...
Figurehead of FGM fight: Leethen Bartholomew, head of the National FGM Centre
- Interview | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Derren Hayes speaks to Leethen Bartholomew, head of the...
Special Report: E-Safety
- Safeguarding in education | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
The digital world has become an integral part of young...
Legal Update: Multi-agency safeguarding arrangements
- Children's rights | Safeguarding and child protection | Legal | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
New guidance sets out what organisations and agencies must...
County lines: child victims of crime
- Children's rights | Legal | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram...
Commissioning: Tackling domestic abuse
- Commissioning | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Joint commissioning is the most effective way to deliver...
Special Report: Exploitation and Vulnerability
- Social Care | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Amid rising concerns about child criminal and sexual...
Recognising and Responding to Young People With Learning Disabilities Who Experience, or Are at Risk of, Child Sexual Exploitation in the UK
- Social Care | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Findings from recent studies suggest there is an increased...
Guide to contextual safeguarding
- Social Care | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
A project will deliver contextual safeguarding in three...
Advice on using ACE enquiry
- Health | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Experts say more research is needed on impact of routine...
Special Report: Child Sexual Exploitation
- Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Rotherham's child sexual exploitation scandal propelled the...
Immaterial Boys? A Large-Scale Exploration of Gender-Based Differences in Child Sexual Exploitation Service Users
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This research paper provides findings from a study exploring...
Sharing the evidence on CSA: Cassandra Harrison, the Centre of Expertise on CSA
- Safeguarding and child protection | Interview | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Derren Hayes speaks to Cassandra Harrison, director, the...
Legal Update: Be alert to signs of child trafficking
- Children's rights | Safeguarding and child protection | Legal | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Stewart MacLachlan, legal and policy officer at Coram...
Legal Update: Access to justice for abuse victims
- Children's rights | Legal | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Marianne Lagrue, policy officer at Coram Children's Legal...
Inspections: Joint targeted area inspections
- Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Inspections | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Inspections of local safeguarding arrangements were...
Special Report: Intrafamilial Abuse
- Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Data shows the number of child abuse, parental neglect and...
Local Spotlight: Oxfordshire County Council
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Funding cuts and safeguarding crisis spark innovations in...
Special Report: E-Safety and Online Safeguarding
- Safeguarding in education | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
While the internet provides great opportunities for children...
Safeguarding beyond rhetoric
- Leadership | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
The absence of powers has made local safeguarding more...
Your guide to the Children and Social Work Act
- Education | Sexual health | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Leaving care | Safeguarding and child protection | PSHE Education | Foster Care | Leaving Care | Adoption | Preventing Care Proceedings | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
What the act means for everyday practice across the...
Guide to tackling CSA in schools
- Education | Safeguarding in education | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Schools are vital in educating about child sexual abuse, but...
Inspections: Local safeguarding children boards
- Ofsted | Inspections | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Ofsted inspections of local safeguarding children boards...
Safeguarding against sexting
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Work | PSHE Education | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
How youth workers can help educate young people about the...
Understanding impact of abuse and reviewing care placement options
- Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care | Adoption | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Review assesses the evidence on the impact of abuse on...
Rebuilding life after child sexual abuse
- Social Care | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
The NSPCC's Letting the Future In programme works with...
The policy context on Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
- Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Information sharing | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
The Department for Education leads on child protection in...
Good Practice
International safeguarding practice
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Ann Marie Christian has specialised in training education...
Childline uses tech to track impact of its online support
- Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Children's Services | Children's rights | Safeguarding and child protection | Social Care
Childline Online Services aims to empower children and young...
Girlguiding UK ensures online safety is at the heart of safeguarding policy and practice
- Youth Work | Participation | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Uniformed youth group redrafts online safety policies to...
How I Got Here: Cath Pickles, chief executive, Restitute
- Careers | Families/Parenting | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Cath Pickles is chief executive of Restitute, a community...
Virtual reality brings experiences of exploitation to life
- Safeguarding and child protection | Education | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Films depict how a young person is groomed by a drugs gang...
Prospective adopters use technology to see the reality of childhood trauma
- Fostering and adoption | Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Foster Care | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Virtual reality technology used to improve understanding of...
Leading the fight against county lines gangs in Kent
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Charity supports local young people recruited to sell drugs...
Mediation helps Bengali young people leave gangs behind
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Works with vulnerable young people in predominantly Bengali...
Services collaborate to tackle CCE in South Yorkshire
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Multi-agency hub established to co-ordinate sub-regional...
NSPCC e-safety guides for parents and professionals
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Online guides help parents understand how young people use...
Project confronts online sexual harassment
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Project tackles barriers to reporting by using educational...
Moving on from domestic abuse
- Social Care | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
The latest in a series about emerging safeguarding practice...
Evidence and Impact: Scaling up programmes
- Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
The latest in a series about emerging safeguarding practice...
Integrated gangs unit
- Social Care | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
London council's gangs unit brings police and children's...
Pan-Merseyside integrated child exploitation service
- Social Care | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Initiative works with police and safeguarding agencies to...
Luton Prevent programme
- Social Care | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Council taken the lead on supporting children and families...
I Define Me
- Social Care | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Specialist service in two London hospitals support girls and...
Lancashire vulnerability hub
- Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Multi-agency hub works with vulnerable young people in...
Local Spotlight: Rotherham Council
- Social Care | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Yorkshire town with a history of milling was rocked by 2014...
Evidence and Impact: Harmful sexual behaviour
- Safeguarding in education | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
The latest in a series of articles about emerging...
Evidence and Impact: Child-centred responses to CSA
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
The first of a series of articles about emerging...
Protect and Respect
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
NSPCC runs specialist CSE service to raise awareness of the...
Young and Safe
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Response to child sexual exploitation refocused from social...
Newcastle Sexual Exploitation Hub
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Multi-agency group supports children and adults at risk of...
South Yorkshire Empower and Protect
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Catch22 helped South Yorkshire authorities trial a new...
Barnahus approach, Iceland
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
International studies have shown that Iceland has the second...
Whole-family approaches to tackling domestic abuse
- Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Projects in the first phase of the Children's Social Care...
How pupils learn to resist grooming
- Education | Safeguarding in education | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Nine- to 12-year-olds develop the skills to resist grooming.
Legal Update: Safeguarding unaccompanied children
- Asylum | Safeguarding and child protection | Legal | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram...
Sheffield City Council
- Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Intrafamilial sexual abuse case review highlighted poor...
Exploring Approaches to Child Welfare in the Contexts of Domestic Violence and Abuse: Family Group Conferences
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This theoretical paper explores service provision for...
Lessons from Serious Case Reviews: Child sexual exploitation
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
The NSPCC has analysed evidence from serious case reviews to...
Family Violence, Fathers, and Restoring Personhood
- Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This paper explored a US group-based fathering programme...
Sexting Guidance
- Safeguarding in education | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Half-day workshop focuses on how teachers and other...
Research
Children's Online User Ages Quantitative Research Study
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Children and young people can get around age restrictions on...
Child sexual exploitation: research evidence
- Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Safeguarding and child protection | Social Care
Kairika Karsna, senior research and evaluation officer at...
History of childhood maltreatment is associated with reduced fractional anisotropy of the accumbofrontal ‘reward’ tract in healthy adults
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Several studies have shown that childhood maltreatment is...
Practitioner Review: Twenty years of research with adverse childhood experience scores – Advantages, disadvantages and applications to practice
- Health | Mental health | Social Care | Mental Health | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
In their practitioner review, Lacey and Minnis consider the...
Relocation, Relocation, Relocation: Home and School-Moves for Children Affected by Extra-Familial Risks During Adolescence
- Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection
This paper presents cumulative findings from studies into...
No Further Action: Contextualising Social Care Decisions for Children Victimised in Extra-Familial Settings
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This paper presents findings from one component of a study...
Contextual Risk, Individualised Responses: An Assessment of Safeguarding Responses to Nine Cases of Peer-on-Peer Abuse
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This article explores safeguarding responses to peer-on-peer...
Keeping Children Safe? Advancing Social Care Assessments to Address Harmful Sexual Behaviour in Schools
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Analysis of two studies to build an assessment framework for...
‘Why Wouldn’t You Have a Circle?’ An Evaluation of the Glebe House Circles Pilot
- Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This report is about a recent development at Glebe House:...
Preliminary Evaluation of the Virtual Reality Pilot Programme: The Cornerstone Partnership
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Fostering and adoption | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Foster Care | Adoption
This study provides summary findings from a preliminary...
A Review of the Risks Associated with Children and Young People’s Social Media Use and the Implications for Social Work Practice
- Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Social Care | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This study reviewed the research literature to understand...
Towards a Contextual Response to Peer-on-Peer Abuse: Research and Resources From MsUnderstood Local Site Work 2013-2016
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This report presents findings and resources from a...
That Difficult Age: Developing a More Effective Response to Risks in Adolescence
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Drawing on evidence from research and practice, this paper...
Relocation, Relocation, Relocation: Home and School-Moves For Children Affected by Extra-Familial Risks During Adolescence
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This paper explores the practice of moving children out of...
Keeping Kids Safe: Improving Safeguarding Responses to Gang Violence and Criminal Exploitation
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This report by the Children's Commissioner for England, Anne...
E-Safety: Vulnerable Children in a Digital World
- Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
For many vulnerable children, the digital environment can be...
An Assessment of Independent Child Trafficking Advocates
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
How the Independent Child Trafficking Advocates (ICTAs)...
Working with Prevent: Social Work Options for Cases of 'Radicalisation Risk
- Social Care | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
The 2015 Prevent duty mandates social workers and other...
Safe Foster Care for Victims of Child Sexual Exploitation
- Social Care | Foster Care | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This study is the first UK evaluation of specialist foster...
'Going Viral' and 'Going Country' the Expressive and Instrumental Activities of Street Gangs on Social Media
- Social Care | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This study considers the role of the internet in gang...
Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation: Knowledge, Confidence and Training within a Contemporary UK Social Work Practice and Policy Context
- Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This paper reports on the implications of a study...
Combatting Child Sexual Exploitation with Young People and Parents: Contributions to a Twenty-First-Century Family Support Agenda
- Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This article discusses family work with young people and...
Local Authority Support for Non-EEA Migrant Child Victims of Modern Slavery
- Asylum | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Cordis Bright was commissioned by the government to review...
Exploring Peer Mentoring as a Form of Innovative Practice with Young People at Risk of Child Sexual Exploitation
- Safeguarding and child protection | Mentoring | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Little is known about the use of peer-led approaches as a...
How Do Siblings of Child Sexual Abuse Victims Respond to Disclosure? "Impact of Child Sexual Abuse on Non-Abused Siblings: A Review With Implications for Research and Practice"
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This review explores the evidence on the experiences on...
Experiences of Emotional and Physical Sibling Abuse "Lifting The Veil: The Lived Experience of Sibling Abuse"
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This study from the US used the narratives of...
Children's Narratives of Sexual Abuse
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This paper reports on a qualitative analysis of 2,986 cases...
How Families Respond to Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure "The Impact of Child Sexual Abuse Discovery on Caregivers and Families: A Qualitative Study"
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This qualitative study from the US explores the impact of...
The Integrated Model of Restorative Supervision for Use Within Safeguarding
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This paper reviews an integrated restorative safeguarding...
Analysing Repeated Referrals to Children's Services in England
- Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings
This study set out to discover the factors behind children...
A Descriptive Account of Victims' Behaviour and Responses in Sexually Exploitative Interactions with Offenders
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
The research section for this special report is based on a...
Pornography, Sexual Coercion and Abuse and Sexting in Young People's Intimate Relationships: A European Study
- Safeguarding in education | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Flood's (2009) non-systematic review identifies associations...
Child Protection Social Work in England: How Can It Be Reformed?
- Families/Parenting | Social Care | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Martyn Higgins examines debates about child protection...
Special Report: Child Sexual Abuse And Exploitation - Research evidence
- Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
The research section for this special report is based on a...
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