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...

This report presents the findings of a cross sectional study of 10,825 children aged 5 to12 years in 2011 and 2012 who presented at Dental Treatment Centres located in non-fluoridated areas of the South West of Western Australia and the Perth metropolitan area where the drinking water has been fluoridated for over 40 years. The...

This New Zealand Cabinet paper is the Government’s response to the recommendations made in the final report of the Confidential Listening and Assistance Service. It provides a consolodated list of the actions taken by agencies to address each of the seven recommendations:

The ICPS Research to Practice Series links the findings of research undertaken by the Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University, to the development of policy and practice in the area of child, youth and family welfare.

Summary Gender neutral parenting and play is a big subject in Sweden. The country has recently adopted the gender neutral pronoun ‘hen’ – teachers are encouraged to say ‘good morning buddies’ instead of ‘good morning girls and boys’, and toy catalogues regularly show images of boys in Spider Man costumes pushing pink prams. Meanwhile in...