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:
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
Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism
A Code of Conduct designed for tour operators and travel agenices wordlwide.
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Book/Guide
Commit to Kids - Parents Guide
A comprehensive programme to help child facing organisations prevent abuse through providing families with a ‘Parent Guide’ designed to help them understand the issue of child sexual abuse and choose ‘safe’ organisations to be involved with their children.
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Book/Guide
Commit to Kids - Website
A website providing publications and advice on child protection strategies and policies as well as step-by-step plan for reducing the risk of sexual abuse in child-serving organisations.
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Online/App
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
Courtney's House
A support programme for young victims of sex trafficking. Programmes are individually tailored, based on an assessment of each young person’s needs.
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Counselling
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Group Work
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Mentoring
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Phone
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
Cracked Mirrors
A theatre production for advocacy against child sexual abuse and exploitation performed by those who have experienced abuse themselves on the streets of the Philippines. An educational campaign focussing on commercial sexual exploitation. Leaflets, posters and online banners were used in English, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian. Preventative workshops were also delivered to young people and a helpline was made available.
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Theatrical
CROGA
A free anonymous self-help resource for people worried about their online behaviour with regard to accessing child pornography.
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Online/App
Don't Lose!
An educational campaign focusing on commercial sexual exploitation. Leaflets, posters and online banners were used in English, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian. Preventative workshops were also delivered to young people and a helpline was made available.
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Classroom Setting
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Phone
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Public Education
Dynamics of Sexual Abuse Workshop
A workshop for professionals and other adults designed to provide guidance, advice, education and support to those in a position to act to protect children.
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Classroom Setting
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Group Work
Dzimba Safety Program
A nice-session education programme for 5-11 year olds aiming to prevent child sexual abuse by improving children’s self-esteem and confidence; increasing their capacity to disclose; and improve the skills of adults to receive a disclosure.
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Classroom Setting
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Game
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Group Work
ECPAT Supporting Marginalised Youth in Brazil
An intervention aimed at targeting marginalised transsexual young people to help prevent commercial sexual exploitation.
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Counselling
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Mentoring
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Peer Support
ECPAT Supporting Marginalised Youth in Peru
Group based educational activities delivered by men to groups of boys in High Schools designed to prevent sexual violence and commercial sexual exploitation through examining gender roles and norms and harm caused by abuse.
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Classroom Setting
Espace romand de prevention DIS NO
A helpline and email service which provides an initial contact point for people worried about their own sexual attraction to children, or people worried about someone they know, for them to receive advice, support and referrals onto additional services e.g. psychologists.
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Online/App
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Phone
Everyone's Got a Bottom
A story book for sharing with young children to help parents convey important safety messages. Reinforces the messages that a child’s body belongs to them together with the importance of telling a grown up if something is wrong.
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Book/Guide
Expect Respect - USA
A school based educational programme promoting safe and healthy relationships for young people.
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Classroom Setting
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Counselling
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Group Work
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Individual Work
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