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Support for child to parent abuse

2025

Raising awareness of child to parent abuse to ensure all frontline workers can recognise signs of harmful behaviour.

Perpetrator Intervention Program Completion Certificates Are Dangerous

accountability, FVSV
2025

Program certificates that primarily reflect attendance or participation—and not real and measurable responsibility and behavior change—can actually increase the ability of perpetrators to control and dominate the lives of survivors and their children.

Turning back the tide: Exploring regulatory approaches to addressing sexual violence and harm online

CEDV, FVSV, sexual violence, system improvement
2025

This paper reviews recent developments in online regulation and safety aimed at reducing sexual violence and harm. It examines some existing regulatory approaches in Australia and internationally, and considers pathways for more effective and balanced regulation.

Child maltreatment: Evidence-based insights for policy and program design

child maltreatment, policy
2025

This Evidence Brief provides a snapshot of recent research findings on child maltreatment. It underscores the need for coordinated prevention efforts and non-stigmatising parental support.

Child Abuse and Neglect Mandatory Reporting Workshop

child maltreatment, FVSV prevention
2025

This workshop covers essential knowledge for anyone who has anything to do with children and young people either indirectly or directly.

Respectful relationships education: A blueprint for preventing gender-based violence through education systems

education, FVSV prevention
2025

The Respectful Relationships Education Blueprint provides a national framework for preventing gender-based violence in Australian schools through curriculum, workforce, and leadership initiatives.

Who benefits? Shining a Light on the Business of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

CEDV, child sexual abuse, FVSV
2025

This report reveals the financial networks enabling child sexual exploitation and abuse. It calls for prevention-focused reforms, stronger regulation and accountability for tech companies, and enhanced law-enforcement efforts to dismantle these networks.

A literature review of therapeutic intervention with young survivors of violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect

CEDV, child maltreatment, FVSV, lived experience
2025

This article reviews therapeutic interventions for children and young people who have experienced violence, exploitation, abuse or neglect. While many approaches exist, most evaluation remains adult centred and focused on standardised measures rather than children’s lived experiences. The review calls for a shift toward recognising young survivors as full participants in their own healing, with their identities, perspectives and voices treated as central to therapeutic work.

Culturally safe trauma-informed care for youth in residential care: Addressing systemic trauma in New Zealand

residential care, trauma-informed practice
2025

This practice perspective examines the extent to which trauma-informed care is implemented in policies, models of care, and practice within State care and protection residences and supervised group homes in New Zealand.

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