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.

In 1992 when I published my first book “Making a Case in Child Protection” the Internet barely featured. 30 years later it has become a key factor in children’s learning and social life, but also in their abuse. How has child sexual abuse changed?  In my most recent book “Online Child Sexual Victimisation” Emma Kelly and I report on what can be known about the abuse of children online from recent research.  We also reflect on what happens when children’s normal sexual behaviour becomes virtual, the ways in which younger children are becoming more visible in abuse, and the need for intersectional community-based responses. Over the last two decades I have worked with many others - computer scientists, law enforcement, NGO’s, children’s co-design facilitators and communities - aiming to channel the affordances of the online world to improve child protection.

Detective Inspector Catherine Cox is staff officer for the National Police Chief’s Council Child Protection and Abuse Investigations Working Group, led by Deputy Chief Constable Ian Critchley. The group covers all aspects of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation across policing. Catherine has been a police officer for 12 years and in the last decade has worked as a detective, primarily in roles protecting vulnerable people, such as: domestic abuse, child protection, sexual offences and public protection. She has worked on high profile child protection matters such as Alfie Evans, with national organisations on improving safeguarding policy, improving our approach to child protection in organised crime and managing child protection and sexual offences teams in Liverpool. Catherine is really passionate about her job and the opportunity to help improve outcomes for vulnerable children.

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.

Detective Inspector Fiona Gray manages Cumbria Constabulary’s Cyber and Digital Crime Unit, which encompasses the Online Child Abuse Investigation Team, Cyber Dependent Crime Team, Digital Media Investigators and Digital Forensics Unit. She has a background in CID, Public Protection and Safeguarding.

Jasmin is a criminologist with extensive research and evaluation experience across both statutory and voluntary sectors. Before joining the CSA Centre, Jasmin worked as an independent research consultant, supporting organisations that operate within criminal justice, children’s health and social care and local government. Prior to this, she was a lecturer and researcher in the Centre for Law, Crime and Justice at Cardiff University for over 15 years and remains an Honorary Research Fellow in the University’s School of Social Sciences. Jasmin’s work is practice-informed, and she has worked on a number of research projects that have made a significant impact on both UK and EU policy-making.

Michael worked as a Probation Officer for 10 years in custodial and community settings with sexual offenders before joining The Lucy Faithfull Foundation in 1997. His duties at The Foundation included the preparation of risk assessments for Family Courts dealing with both convicted and alleged offenders. He was commissioned to undertake whole community risk assessments of a number of UK Overseas Territories including the Falkland Islands.

Michael developed a specialism in working with viewers of child sexual abuse material from 1998, and he is a regular trainer on the Europol course for investigators. He is the author of a play and book, ‘Crossing the line’, which deals with secondary trauma as it affects families affected by, and those investigating the possession of child sexual abuse material.

Practice Improvement Advisor, CSA Centre

Natasha is a Forensic Psychologist with professional experience in child sexual abuse. She has worked within Youth Justice as a practitioner and manager specialising in harmful sexual behaviour. Natasha has also had roles within secure hospitals and custodial environments where she has predominantly worked with adult males who have committed sexual offences. Natasha is a visiting lecturer at the University of Birmingham, facilitating teaching sessions to Forensic and Clinical Psychologists in training.

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.

Director of Lucy Faithfull Foundation with responsibilities for Stop It Now! Scotland, Stuart qualified as a social worker in 1998, working for the next two decades with children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviours as a practitioner, manager and trainer. Currently vice chair of NOTA UK and Ireland (National Organisation for the Treatment of Abuse) and honorary researcher at Strathclyde University. Trustee of White Ribbon Scotland and Associate at Centre for Youth And Criminal Justice. Co-author of ‘Working with Children and Young People Who Have Displayed Harmful Sexual Behaviour’ (Dunedin Press, 2018), ‘Sibling Sexual Abuse: A Knowledge and Practice Overview’ (Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse, 2021) and ‘Sibling sexual behaviour: A summary guide to responding to inappropriate, problematic and abusive behaviour’  (Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse, 2023).