National Action Plan Preventing and Responding to Child Sexual Abuse

The National Action Plan (the ‘Plan’) considers Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) including Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and Harmful Sexual Behaviour (HSB). Looking forward this National Action Plan will assist in assessing the implementation of forthcoming statutory guidance, Working Together to Safeguard People- Volume 7- Safeguarding children from Child Sexual Exploitation and the All Wales Practice Guides on CSE and HSB once issued by the Safeguarding Boards with the Wales Safeguarding Procedures.

The National Action Plan is based around 10 objectives that each have actions for both Welsh Government and Regional Safeguarding Boards to respond to. Within the action plan there are helpful links to provide opportunities for learning, sharing knowledge along with signposting to topic specific services. These are also listed below to provide quick access

National Action Plan Preventing and Responding to Child Sexual Abuse

Research

Keeping Safe? – An analysis of the outcomes of work with sexually exploited young people in Wales

The Child Sexual Abuse Centre seeks to build confidence in the workforce to address CSA by improving the access to, and embedding of, evidence within practice. They work with cross sector organisations and leaders to ensure their research efforts are grounded in practice experience and service improvement.

Below are some key evidence-based resources for practitioners, commissioners and policymakers working to identify, prevent and respond to child sexual abuse.

• Key messages from research on identifying and responding to disclosures of child sexual abuse
• Key messages from research on intra-familial child sexual abuse
• Key messages from research on institutional child sexual abuse
• Key messages from research on children who display harmful sexual behavior
• Key messages from research on looked-after children and child sexual abuse
• Don’t wait for them to tell us: recognizing and responding to signs of child sexual abuse.
• The myth of ‘absolute knowing’: when is the evidence enough?
• “But they must have known!”: Effectively working with non-abusing parents.

Campaign

• Stop it Now Wales Child Sexual Abuse Prevention – It’s time we talked about it’ campaign
• Preventing Child Sexual Abuse - Poster
• Preventing Child Sexual Abuse - Leaflet

• CSA Resource Pack - This resource pack has been developed to implement and promote the Welsh Government’s National Action Plan on preventing and responding to child sexual abuse