The University of Sydney and Youth Justice New South Wales signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in July 2021. This MoU builds on various prior collaborative activities between the two organisations and related work in other jurisdictions. This paper reflects on the progress and challenges of collaboration of this kind.

This paper presents the findings from the first multi-jurisdictional study to explore the experiences and impacts of video visits between fathers in prison and their children. Findings show that there are significant benefits to video visitation for fathers, children and children’s carers, and corrective services.

There has long been consensus that domestic and family violence, parental mental health issues and alcohol and other drug use are strongly interlinked and increase the risk of children and young people entering out-of-home care. This study observes those interconnections, and is one of the first external projects to use the newly established NSW Human...