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My superhero voice: Resources to teach body safety

child sexual abuse, parenting, practice tool
2025

This resource supports safe and age-appropriate conversations with children aged 5–8 about personal safety, trusted adults, and speaking up. It includes a downloadable storybook, a read-along video, and guidance for parents, carers, and educators.

In Conversation – Child sexual abuse and the impacts to and within the family system

child sexual abuse, evidence informed practice, lived experience
2025

This In Conversation discussion brings together lived experience with insights from research, cultural wisdom and practice expertise to explore the impacts of child sexual abuse within the family system.

Foundations of child sexual abuse

child sexual abuse, evidence informed practice
2025

A self-paced, two-hour course providing foundational knowledge on child sexual abuse, including prevalence, warning signs, perpetrator behaviour, impacts, and prevention. Suitable for workers and community members. The course costs $33 (incl. GST) with bulk enrolment options.

Safeguarding children from child sexual abuse

child sexual abuse
2025

Provides insights into regulatory mechanisms for safeguarding children against CSA in early childhood education centre contexts and identifies opportunities to incorporate best practice policy and procedures for the design and implementation of safeguarding schemes in Queensland.

Child Sexual Abuse Language Guide

child sexual abuse, FVSV
2025

This guide is designed for anyone working in child protection, policy, practice, education, healthcare, research, justice or communications. It provides victim and survivor-informed language and definitions that are respectful, inclusive and trauma-informed.

Who benefits? Shining a Light on the Business of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

CEDV, child sexual abuse, FVSV
2025

This report reveals the financial networks enabling child sexual exploitation and abuse. It calls for prevention-focused reforms, stronger regulation and accountability for tech companies, and enhanced law-enforcement efforts to dismantle these networks.

The links between childhood sexual abuse victimisation and adolescent offending

CEDV, child sexual abuse, FVSV, sexual violence, youth justice
2025

This study examines the links between child sexual abuse victimisation experiences and sexual offending. Findings highlight the need for early intervention to prevent the emergence of sexual harm.

Developing Minimum Practice Standards for specialist and community support services responding to child sexual abuse

child sexual abuse, lived experience
2024

This article outlines the national co-design process used to develop minimum practice standards for responding to child sexual abuse. It describes collaboration across lived experience, government and sector partners, and identifies core components of high-quality, child-safe services.

What survivors of child sexual abuse taught me about child safety, grace and the work of being sorry

child sexual abuse, domestic and family violence, FVSV
2025

This reflective article draws on learning from survivors of child sexual abuse to examine what a genuine apology, relational repair, and survivor-centered safety look like in practice. It highlights the emotional labour survivors carry and the need for adults and systems to approach harm with humility and accountability.

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