While there is a substantive international literature on childhood sexual abuse (CSA), studies that have examined children's own accounts are rare.
This paper reports on a qualitative analysis of 2,986 cases of self-disclosure of sexual abuse from children, aged 5 to 18, who contacted ChildLine Scotland (CLS), a free, confidential telephone counselling service. Children's calls to CLS represent unsolicited communications - the data analysed reflects children's own self-identified concerns regarding sexual abuse, which are unmediated by adult concerns and agendas, and the parameters of professional encounters. In this respect, the CLS data is unique insofar as it can reveal insights that other forms of inquiry may not.
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