An initiative of Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University

Research & Evidence Base

Swinburne Institute for Social Research

Leah Bromfield

12 April 2011 | This resource sheet provides information about children in out-of-home care in Australia who are on care and protection orders.
01 April 2011 | This resource outlines the different approaches used to assess whether children are at risk of maltreatment, and explore issues and criticisms surrounding the use of standardised risk assessment instruments in child protection.
15 December 2010 | This paper presents evidence regarding the extent to which parental substance misuse, domestic violence and parental mental health problems co-occur and discusses the wider context of exclusion and disadvantage.
05 November 2010 | This resource sheet provides a brief history of developments in child protection services in Australia and internationally.
04 November 2010 | Evidence for the impact of media-based social marketing campaigns related to child protection, parenting and child abuse prevention is examined in this paper.
22 July 2010 | This resource presents and discusses a snapshot of data describing the rates of involvement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection and out of home care.
22 July 2010 | This resource examines expenditure related to child abuse and neglect that is made by departments responsible for child protection services in Australia.
22 April 2010 | The purpose of this Resource Sheet is to summarise the state of our knowledge about the prevalence of child abuse and neglect.
04 December 2009 | Parents with intellectual disabilities represent a modest number of all parents in Australia however, they are over-represented in child protection and legal proceedings.
16 December 2008 | This report, funded by the National Child Protection and Support Services Data Group (NCPASS), explores the similarities and differences in Australian child protection administrative data.

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