LBBD Child Sexual Abuse Hub

LBBD Working in partnership with the Sunrise Hub

The Sunrise Hub provides a comprehensive service to residents and professionals in Barking & Dagenham, City & Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, and Waltham Forest 

Here is an overview of the service offer:

  • Service Scope: The Sunrise Hub supports children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse. The service is provided by a multi-disciplinary team including children’s doctors, nursing teams, health play specialists, and wellbeing practitioners
  • Medical Assessments: The clinic, held at the Royal London Hospital, offers child-centred medical assessments. These assessments include holistic health evaluations, with options for head-to-toe examinations, genital examinations, STI screening, pregnancy screening, and follow-up appointments
  • Support and Wellbeing: The service recognises the impact of traumatic experiences on health and wellbeing. It provides a safe space for children to discuss concerns about their body, health, and coping mechanisms. The child remains in control throughout the assessment and is encouraged to voice their comfort levels
  • Integrated Pathway: The service model involves collaboration between health, voluntary sector, and social care professionals. It offers health assessments, emotional support, and guidance to children under 18 (up to 25 with SEND needs) and their families. Referrals are mostly made by children’s social care, but GPs, Paediatricians, Police, CAMHS, and the Havens also refer
  • Therapeutic Support: Emotional support is provided in the child’s home borough at a place of their choosing, often their school

Sunrise Hub Pack (PDF, 6.06 MB)

Sunrise Hub service info for professionals (PDF, 220.3 KB)

NEL Sunrise Hub health info for CYP (PDF, 195.1 KB)

Sunrise Hub service info for families (PDF, 165.3 KB)

Social Care Liaison Officer – Nazif Taner

Employed by LBBD and managed by the LBBD CSA Hub Lead, the purpose of the Social Care Liaison Officer is to work across the North East London (NEL) Partnership of 7 Local Authorities and the City of London alongside the Sunrise Hub.

Their duties include:

  • To raise awareness of the response pathways amongst social care teams
  • To facilitate joint working and information sharing
  • Increase confidence amongst social care staff in identifying and responding to Child Sexual Abuse
  • Aiming to achieve consistency in practice and response across NEL
  • Aiming to achieve consistency Pan London

When the Children’s Commissioner visited us at the Sunrise Hub!

24 April 2025 the Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel De Souza, visited the Sunrise Hub to meet with the multi-disciplinary team, including LBBD’s CSA Lead Kelly Bromfield, Social Care Liaison Officer Naz Taner and Director of Children's Social Care April Bald.  

See our April 2025 Newsletter to read the article.