Protecting children and responding to child sexual abuse within the family environment | BASW England Children and Families Lunchtime Session

In November 2024 the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel published their national review “I wanted them all to notice: Protecting children and responding to child sexual abuse within the family environment.” The findings of this national review highlight a systemic failure across all services to recognise and respond when children are at risk of, or are already, being sexually abused by someone in their family environment. Anna Glinski, from the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse who were commissioned to undertake the review, will provide an overview of the key findings and recommendations, allowing time for any questions or reflections on the report. To conclude the session Anna will introduce some of the practical resources that may be used to address the challenges in practice.

Anna Glinski, Deputy Director, Knowledge and Practice Development. 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 child sexual abuse cases. She was previously the CSA Centre's Practice Improvement Advisor for Social Work and, before that, the practice development lead for child sexual abuse within her 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.