Stop it Now!
Wales

All Wales review on child sexual abuse prevention

Introduction

Stop it Now! Wales believes and acts on the principle that all adults are responsible for protecting children from sexual abuse. By providing educative programmes such as our Parents Protect Plus! courses, by providing accurate information through our printed materials, seminars for professionals and by making the Stop it Now! helpline available to the Welsh public, we are committed towards preventing child sexual abuse within our communities.

A comprehensive approach

We also recognise that we cannot prevent child sexual abuse alone. A comprehensive approach to preventing child sexual abuse lies at the heart of Stop it Now! Wales’s key aims and objectives. We believe that by applying a comprehensive approach to preventing child sexual abuse, the greater the impact and effectiveness of all of the work towards this common aim, is.

We have undertaken a review employing a framework developed by Smallbone et al, to examine the current response in Wales to child sexual abuse prevention and identify priority areas for improvement and need, highlighting the current challenges to effective child sexual abuse prevention.

We have conducted research with young people, young people who had sexually abused children in the past, parents and carers, multi-agency professionals and adult sexual offenders. Employing the comprehensive framework developed by Stephen Smallbone we were able to examine the issue of child sexual abuse prevention and identify priority areas of need across Wales.

Findings, conclusions and recommendations

The results of this study will be published in Autumn 2011.

Contact us

For further information contact Rebecca Morgan on 07989 378220 or email wales@stopitnow.org.uk