Organisation
Australian Centre for Child Protection
Owning Institution:
Report
Child neglect: key concepts and risk factors
This report provides an overview of the key concepts in defining neglect and a systematic review of reviews investigating the common risk factors for neglect.
Guide
Protection through participation: involving children in child-safe organisations
Drawing from the Children's Safety Study, a study that considered children's perceptions of safety, their safety needs and how well they believed adults and institutions protected them from harm, this paper provides practical guidance based on what children and young people have said themselves, as well as observations about how this might be put into...
Report
Safe and sound: the safety of young people in residential care
This research report presents the findings of a study that explored the safety of young people in residential care. Commissioned by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, this study aimed to understand what young people believe institutions are doing to identify, prevent and respond to sexual abuse and problematic sexual behaviours...
Report
Caring for our frontline child protection workforce
The aim of this paper is to offer some guidance to the management of child protection and related services by drawing on occupational health literature.
Report
Scoping study for research into prevalence of child sexual abuse in Australia
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (the Royal Commission) is inquiring into how institutions have engaged with and responded to allegations and instances of institutional child sexual abuse. Key to this inquiry is the need to generate an understanding of the extent of child sexual abuse in Australia. Determining the prevalence...