Speakers

Jayne Bryant MS – Chair

Emma Barton – Wales Violence Prevention Unit

Anna Glinski – Centre of Expertise on CSA

Elinor Puzey – NSPCC

Attendees

Berni Durham-Jones- Stepping Stones

Nici Evans - CSA centre

Sarah Walton-Jones- Stop It Now

Catherine Lewis - South Wales

Sally Howells - Cyfannol

Helen Khezrzadeh -Children’s Society

Melissa Wood- Barnardos

Clare Sharp - CIW

Catrin Simpson- SARC

Sarah Keefe - Tarian

Naomi Evans - S. Wales Police

Heather Heaney - Monmouthshire

Damian Rees - Swansea

Janice Dent - Newport

Faith McCready - School Beat

Jan Pickles

Jo Williams - Welsh SARC

Corrina Williams -Sex Education Company

Katryn Bennett- New Pathways

Kizzie Garner-Hughes - Ceredigion

Michelle Jones - Blaenau Gwent

Anna Williams - RASAC

Kirsty Hudson - Cardiff Uni

David Hopkins - Stop it Now chair

Buffy Williams MS

Sian Gwenllian MS

Minutes

The meeting started with the annual AGM. Jayne Bryant MS was elected chair for another year, first and seconded by Buffy Williams MS and Sian Gwenllian MS. NSPCC Cymru, Stop it Now, Survivors Trust, RASAC and Stepping Stones were appointed joint secretariat.

Jayne then opened the meeting explaining it will focus on CSA data collection.

Key points from speakers

Emma Barton – Violence Prevention Unit

· The portal includes publicly available data but stored in one place

· It allows identification of at risk groups and violence ‘hotspots’

· Produces quarterly monitoring reports on ‘spikes and trends’ in data

· Plans to include data from SARCs, education and online harms

Anna Glinski – Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse

· CSA is no less common than other forms of child abuse, but data tells a different story

· CSA will remain hidden if we don’t have data sets.

· Holistic data sets enable better understanding of the contexts in which CSA is taking place which can help with intervention and prevention initiatives

· A comprehensive data set will also inform commissioning of services

Recommendations

In the breakout rooms, two themes emerged, the importance of consistency and resources. The CPG therefore recommends that Welsh Government.

· create parameters for data collection so it can be collected consistently and uniformly across Wales and

· that resources are available to service providers to meaningfully gather information.

Jayne Bryant MS thanked everyone for attending and confirmed a briefing will go to Welsh Government with recommendations and closed the meeting.