Launch of Child Sexual Abuse Special Interest Group - 9 November 2022
10.00am - 11.30am
Chairs of the new SIG : Anna Glinski CSA Centre and Dr Peter Yates, University of Edinburgh
Guest speakers:
Professor Simon Hackett, Durham University, 'Revisiting the continuum of children’s sexual behaviour
Emma Hodgson, NSPCC, 'Technology Assisted Harmful Sexual Behaviour'
Lucy, 'Supporting non-abused children who have a parent suspected and/or convicted of a child sexual abuse offense'
Child Sexual Abuse Special Interest Group
Co-chairs: Anna Glinski and Peter Yates
Anna is the Deputy Director of Knowledge and Practice Development at the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse. E-mail: anna.glinski@csacentre.org.uk
Peter is a Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Edinburgh. E-mail: peter.yates@ed.ac.uk
The purpose of this Special Interest Group is to provide an opportunity for child protection practitioners to share, learn about and discuss up-to-date, practice-relevant research and good, innovative practice and guidance in the area of child sexual abuse; to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to disseminate their work to a practice audience and to build networks of shared interests and activity; and for practitioners to share and discuss current practice challenges and the ways in which researchers and other practitioners can help to address those challenges. We aim to strengthen the relationship between research and practice. Special Interest Group meetings will be organised differently according to the topics to be discussed, but are likely to involve a guest speaker presenting on a subject followed by questions, discussion and issues to be taken forward. The purpose of the Special Interest Group will of course evolve as it becomes established in response of the views and wishes of its members.
Please attend if you would like to be part of this newly developed Special Interest Group on CSA.
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Anna is a qualified social worker and has worked within statutory front line child protection and specialist services as a practitioner and manager throughout her career. She specialised in child sexual abuse work, acting as an expert witness in the family courts on CSA cases. She was previously the CSA Centre's Practice Improvement Advisor for Social Work and, before that, the practice development lead for CSA within the local authority and contributed to local and regional service and policy development. Anna developed and led a multi-disciplinary specialist sexual abuse team, which provided assessments, interventions, supervision, consultation and training. Anna is an Associate Tutor at the University of Sussex and is currently the Editor of NOTA News, the quarterly magazine for members of the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abuse.
Dr Peter Yates is a Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Edinburgh. He is a qualified social worker with particular experience of working within a specialist service supporting children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour. He has published a number of papers on the subject of sibling sexual abuse and is co-author of Yates, P. and Allardyce, S. (2021) Sibling sexual abuse: A knowledge and practice overview, Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse, and Allardyce, S. and Yates, P. (2018) Working with children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour, Dunedin Academic Press.
Emma is a qualified social worker and practice educator. She worked for the NSPCC for almost two decades in the field of children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviour and child sexual abuse recovery services; with 15 in direct practice and then as a development social worker. This role focused on delivering training, workshops and resources for a wide range of professionals working with children and families. She has developed guidance and training for professionals working directly with technology-assisted harmful sexual behaviour, including completing an MSc in forensic Psychology exploring Technology Assisted-Harmful Sexual Behaviour and the tools and resources available and used by professionals working with young people.
In 2020 Lucy was part of the team at Nottingham Trent University who produced a stakeholder’s report looking at the support needs of close associates of those suspected or convicted of online child sexual abuse. She is one of the founding members of a national Indirect Victims of Indecent Images of Children Strategic Group, which includes the Home Office, National Crime Agency and all key agencies aiming to identify ways to improve outcomes for families. Over the last 2 years she has delivered impact awareness training to frontline police officers in 12 forces and been invited to speak with numerous senior police personal about mitigating the harm caused during the judicial process. Lucy co-presents research with the University of Huddersfield which explores the trauma of discovery for families of online offenders. Lucy is also an honorary Visiting Research Fellow at PIER (https://aru.ac.uk/policing-institute) within Anglian Ruskin University.
Simon is a Professor in the Department of Sociology working primarily on issues associated with child maltreatment and sexual harm. He is a member of the Board of Directors of NOTA (www.nota.co.uk) and the Executive Board of ATSA (www.atsa.com), two of the largest professional associations globally concerned with protecting children through improving responses to people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviours. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the CSA Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse.
I think Child Abuse Review has gone from strength to strength and is of a consistently high standard. We have held numerous events that have been inspiring and enabling, such as the most recent Congresses and the Trainer's conference and award ceremony, the seminars to disseminate lessons from Serious Case Reviews. As resources get ever tighter, professionals have fewer and fewer opportunities to come together to exchange ideas and to learn together. We move more and more into silos because of work pressures. This is not the way to keep children safe. Association of Child Protection Professionals is needed to bring people concerned about child protection together to learn, to think, to shape policy and practice and to disseminate research. No-one else does this.
