CWASU | CHILD & WOMAN ABUSE STUDIES UNIT

Recent publications

Identifying and responding to child sexual abuse within complex safeguarding approaches

Complex safeguarding is an approach to responding to criminal activity (often organised) or behaviour associated with criminality, involving children and adults, where there are concerns of exploitation and/or safeguarding concerns. Complex safeguarding often involves agencies and practitioners, working together to tackle various forms of exploitation – primarily child sexual exploitation
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They saved my life

This project is an evaluation of the Ascent Advice & Counselling (A&C) partnership which delivers free, confidential and specialist support, advice and counselling for women and girls in London who have experienced domestic and/or sexual violence. The evaluation covers the period April 2017 to March 2021 The Child &
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Interventions against child abuse and violence against women: Ethics and culture in practice and policy

Responses to violence encounter complex intersections of power relations, rights, culture and ethics. This book offers perspectives from a four-country study of interventions on domestic violence, trafficking for sexual exploitation, physical child abuse and neglect.
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22 Mar 2023

Joining the Dots: International Conversations on VAW has a New Format

We are really happy to share that the third series of Joining the Dots: International Conversations on Violence Against Women began in March 2023, with Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins. In this series Purna will have one to one conversations with people working against violence against women from different parts of the world. Those
1 Dec 2022

The Woman Climbing the Highest Volcano in the World for VAWG charity

Justyna Grucela, our brilliant MA woman and Child Abuse graduate is literally climbing every mountain – well volcano -and raising money for The Women and Girls Network in the process. The Volcanic Seven Summits are the highest volcanic peaks on the Earth’s seven continents, and Justyna wants to climb all of them.

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This course will provide you with a comprehensive grounding in woman and child abuse studies, including theory, research, policy and practice.

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Reflecting the work of CWASU, our short courses focus on what we know about the different forms of abuse.