Knowledge and Practice Hubs 
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Learning points
- The factors that can make a child and family vulnerable to sexual abuse and how to increase safety for children at risk.
- How to support children and young people with the difficult task of disclosure.
- Practice examples, activities and podcast discussion on working with intrafamilial sexual abuse, including by siblings.
- Messages from survivors with lived experience about what they value in social workers.
- What research says about perpetrators of child sexual abuse, the long-term impact, and supporting children of different genders and ethnicities.
Resources in this hub can help you meet point 5 of the Knowledge and skills statement for child and family practitioners: Abuse and neglect of children.
Key knowledge
Multimedia learning
Podcast: messages for practice from sibling sexual abuse research
Interactive learning
Interactive learning
Learn as a group: working with families in sibling sexual abuse cases
Supporting children and families
Multimedia learning
Podcast: intrafamilial sexual abuse and working with the whole family and transcript
The multi-agency response
Multimedia learning
Elsewhere on Community Care Inform
Perpetrators
Multimedia learning
The impact of abuse
Working with different groups
Authors
Anna Glinski is Deputy Director, Knowledge and Practice Development at the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre for short).
Anna is a qualified social worker and has worked in statutory child protection and specialist services as a practitioner and manager. Before joining the CSA Centre of expertise in 2017 (initially as practice improvement advisor for social work), she was the practice development lead for child sexual abuse in East Sussex.
Practitioners from different disciplines in the East Sussex specialist team have contributed some of the resources and Anna’s colleagues at the CSA Centre have contributed guidance on medical examinations and working with families.
The lived experience of child sexual abuse survivors and their families were generously shared by children, young people and adult clients of the Survivors’ Network, Brighton. All their names have been changed.
