This report overviews the purpose, scope, design and administration of the Commission’s fourth Views of Young People in Residential Care Survey, conducted across Queensland in 2012. It also presents findings about the characteristics, circumstances and self-identified needs of young people who participated in the survey and their responses to a selection of questions relevant to...

It is increasingly recognised that experiences of child maltreatment are rarely isolated incidents; different forms of abuse often co-occur, and trauma often develops over prolonged periods. This paper provides practitioners, policy-makers and researchers with an overview of a number of influential recent approaches to conceptualising, recognising and responding to the complexity of child maltreatment and...

This paper summarises the current state of knowledge about the prevalence of child abuse and neglect in Australia.

This paper provides an overview of the risk and protective factors for child abuse and neglect. It is important that practitioners and policy-makers working with children and families operate from a broad understanding of these risk and protective factors and the ways in which they interact.

This paper aims to contribute to the task of evaluating Queensland’s efforts to cultivate trauma and attachment informed residential care environments. This is achieved, firstly, by identifying broad therapeutic goals and core therapeutic tasks of trauma and attachment informed residential care based on an examination of the theoretical and research literature. The paper then considers...