Thank you for visiting ECSA.
We are currently working on a new website which will be relaunched in 2020 with additional information and functionality.
If you know of an intervention which may be considered for inclusion please contact us at ecsa@lucyfaithfull.org
This site is a free toolkit.
It is provided by Lucy Faithfull Foundation - a child protection charity based in UK.
It is for everyone who cares about children – schools, police, social workers, NGOs, local and national governments.
It will help you prevent children from being sexually abused.
With this toolkit you can design a local plan that fits your needs.
This web site will help you:
Understand child sexual abuse.
Decide what kinds of child sexual abuse are a problem in your area, city, country.
Plan solutions that fit your needs.
See solutions others have used from around the world.
This ECSA toolkit is all about preventing the sexual abuse of children.
Download
Welcome to the ECSA toolkit.pdf
downloadwhat is child sexual abuse?
There are many forms of child sexual abuse.
Different places and cultures have different issues.
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non-contact
e.g. showing a child pornography, making a child watch sex
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contact
e.g. an adult touching a child's private parts for sexual pleasure, getting a child to touch an adult's private parts, rape
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sexual exploitation
e.g. giving food, accommodation or drugs in exchange for sex with a child
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online
e.g. adults making, sending or receiving sexual pictures to/from a child
Download
What is child sexual abuse.pdf
downloadhow to prevent child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse is preventable - it is not inevitable.
It is a public health problem which requires interventions across all levels of society.
Steps towards prevention
The download document below explains the process of abuse and how abusers overcome barriers to abuse.
It also shows how those barriers can be made stronger, so that abuse is prevented.
These barriers involve:
- The individual at risk of abusing
- The child or young person at risk of being abused
- Protective adults and young people
Preventing abuse theory
The download document (below) outlines how child sexual abuse can be prevented by taking a public health approach to the problem.
The document explains what is required to address the problem effectively, using interventions and programmes targeting specific groups.
These interventions can be made at different stages of life and at various stages in the abuse process.
Here are some first steps you can take
Think about child sexual abuse in your community
What are the strengths in your community? What are the problems?
Bring people together
Who can you ask to help? Who can help prevent child sexual abuse?
Decide a way forward
Which problems are most common and need to change first?
Download
First planning meeting.pdf
downloadThese documents (below) will help you create a child sexual abuse prevention strategy
Developing your strategy
What to think about when planning a strategy? What sort of things should it include?
A working tool
Plan and record your own strategy.
Strategy template and examples
Example strategies which will help you when planning your own strategy.
Interventions and resources from across the globe
The map below shows where the international interventions and resources on this website have come from.
Identify interventions of interest
You can use the left hand search function below to find the interventions and resources that are most relevant for you.
Note: the descriptions of interventions and resources below are based on published research or documentation from the relevant organisation. Where available, evaluation information is included. Inclusion of an intervention or resource in this toolkit is not necessarily an indication of effectiveness; more of promise. When using an intervention or resource from this website, you will need to adapt it to make it relevant to your own context.
Please contact us with any feedback and information about additional interventions that could usefully be included:
Chelsea's Choice
A theatre play which tells the story of ‘Chelsea’, a teenager who is sexually exploited performed by young to young people in schools and other learning environments.
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Classroom Setting
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Theatrical
An Exceptional Children's Guide to Touch
A book which aims to keep children safe by focussing on issues of physical touch; what is acceptable and what is problematic.
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Book/Guide
Assessing the Risk: Protecting the Child
A guide to assist practitioners to undertake assessments of the risk posed by a man who is known suspected to sexually offend against children but has not been adjudicated/is not in the criminal justice system.
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Book/Guide
Assessment and Treatment Programme for Women who have Sexually Abused a Child/Children
An assessment and treatment programme for adult women with allegations, convictions or admissions in relation to the sexual abuse of children.
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Group Work
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Individual Work
Be Safe - Stay Safe's Children's Programme
A group programme for children aged 8-13 (up to 14 for young people with learning disabilities) with worrying sexual behaviour and their parents/carers.
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Family Work
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Group Work
Becoming New Me
A cognitive-behavioural programme consisting of 166 hours of treatment for males aged 18 years or above, convicted of a sexual offence.
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Group Work
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Prison
Better Lives Booster
A cognitive-behavioural programme available for both non-intellectually disabled and intellectually disabled sex offenders, delivered in custodial settings and focussing on emotions, forming appropriate adult relationships and developing a relapse prevention plan.
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Group Work
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Prison
Childline Schools Service
A prevention programme delivered by trained volunteers in primary schools. Uses a large assembly and smaller interactive classroom sessions.
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Classroom Setting
Circles of Support and Accountability
A programme which uses volunteers to support and hold to account a sex offender as they reintegrate into community.
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Mentoring
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Peer Support
Community Sex Offender Groupwork Programme
A groupwork programme for adults over 21 years of age who are convicted of one or more sexual offences.
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Group Work
Core Sex Offender Treatment Programme
A cognitive-behavioural group treatment programme, delivered in prison, targeted at adult male convicted sex offenders.
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Group Work
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Prison
CPSU Framework of National Standards for Safeguarding and Protecting Children in Sport
A framework of standards for safeguarding and protecting children in sport from all kinds of abuse, including sexual abuse. There is a supporting video and website.
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Book/Guide
Expect Respect UK
A toolkit for addressing relationship abuse, for use with primary school children and secondary school young people. It challenges attitudes of teenagers towards violence and abuse.
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Classroom Setting
Exposed
A ten minute film about sexting and cyberbullying which can be used as part of an educational programme or watched by young people on You Tube.
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Film
Extended Sex Offender Treatment Programme
As an extended version of the Core Sex Offender Treatment Programme, it is a cognitive-behavioural group treatment programme, delivered in prison, targeted at adult male convicted sex offenders.
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Group Work
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Prison
Facing the Future
A guide for parents/carers of young people who have sexually abused another child. Includes information about why children and young people may abuse others, finding out about the abuse, helping the child and looking to the future.
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Book/Guide
G-Map
A community based treatment programme for young people with harmful sexual behaviour and their families/carers.
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Counselling
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Family Work
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Individual Work
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Residential
Growing Up with Yasmine and Tom
A programme to assist teachers to deliver Personal, Social and Health Education within the school setting. Includes 50 age appropriate lessons and activities as well as lesson plans, animations and videos. Covers topics such as the body, feelings, relationships, family life and online safety.
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Classroom Setting
Guide to Relationships and Sex
A range of sex education DVDs for children and young people, including those with disabilities.
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Classroom Setting
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Film
Healthy Sex Programme
A cognitive-behavioural programme designed to educate male sex offenders to understand healthy sex, healthy sexual thoughts, triggers to sexual arousal and to increase healthy sexual thoughts.
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Group Work
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Individual Work
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Prison