Deputy Director, Knowledge & Practice Development
Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse
Anna heads up the Practice Improvement Team at the CSA Centre, leading work creating practice resources, devising training and advising individuals and organisations on how to improve their response to child sexual abuse. She offers expert input on a number of national strategic projects relating to child sexual abuse, including most recently the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s national review into child sexual abuse in the family environment.
Anna is a qualified social worker and prior to joining the CSA Centre worked within statutory front line child protection and specialist services as a practitioner and manager. She was the practice development lead for child sexual abuse within the local authority, and contributed to local and regional service and policy development. She developed and led a multi-disciplinary specialist sexual abuse service, which provided assessments, interventions, supervision, consultation and training.
Anna has specialised in child sexual abuse work for the majority of her career, including acting as an expert witness in the family courts on child sexual abuse cases. She is co-Chair of the Association of Child Protection Professional’s sexual abuse special interest group; a member of the British Association of Social Workers’ children and families group; an Associate Tutor at the University of Sussex; and Editor of NOTA News, the quarterly magazine for members of the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abuse.