Tools and templates
Designing research addressing child sexual abuse will require careful thought and planning and particularly when you are engaging children and young people.
As part of this planning (and as part of your ethical review process) you will need to develop a range of ‘tools’ and documents to support delivery of your work with children and young people. These are likely to include things like consent forms, information sheets, follow up information and maybe a risk register.
There is no single or right way to approaching these tasks and it is vital that any documents or protocols you develop are tailored to your project and the children, young people and wider stakeholders involved.
However, we know from our own experience that it can be useful to see examples of documents that other researchers have used on similar projects addressing child sexual abuse. As part of the Learning Together Project we received feedback that there was a need for a repository of these examples. In response we have shared a range of example templates for you to review and consider when designing your own.
We hope to keep adding to this repository in the coming months.
We would also love to share examples from other projects – please let us know if you have examples of research tools you would like to share: camille.warrington@beds.ac.uk
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Safer Young Lives Research Centre
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