Earlier this year, I was among the speakers at a conference in Cardiff which focused on approaches to the issue of child sexual abuse (CSA).
Speakers at the event covered topics which included the development of the UK's first child house - London's Lighthouse project, based on the Icelandic ‘Barnahús' model - and the societal cost of child sexual abuse.
But the overall theme was whether child sexual abuse should be considered as a public health issue.
My colleague Jon Brown, the NSPCC's head of impact and development, also spoke. He included a slide which carried a quote from James A Mercy from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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