From journal articles to Quick Guides and webinars, you will find tools and information to support.
This article outlines the national co-design process used to develop minimum practice standards for responding to child sexual abuse. It describes collaboration across lived experience, government and sector partners, and identifies core components of high-quality, child-safe services.
This review revisits the concept of cumulative harm through recent research, legislative changes, and coronial findings, making the case that cumulative harm remains an under-recognised driver of poor outcomes for children. The article critiques fragmented responses across systems and highlights how children’s experiences of violence, neglect, and instability accumulate over time.
This reflective article draws on learning from survivors of child sexual abuse to examine what a genuine apology, relational repair, and survivor-centered safety look like in practice. It highlights the emotional labour survivors carry and the need for adults and systems to approach harm with humility and accountability.
This article offers an expert by experience perspective on what it is like to be caught between parents during and after family violence. It explores how loyalty conflicts, fear, and pressure shape children’s relationships with adults around them. The piece highlights how systems and services can unintentionally intensify the “tug of war” when they fail to understand children’s relational worlds.
This commentary explores the critical importance of listening to children’s voices within the family law context and proposes a framework for practice designed to enhance children’s participation in decisions that affect their lives.
Studies of program effectiveness consistently report high attrition rates and, importantly, an association between non-completion and recidivism. These findings support the need for more nuanced analyses of program outcomes that capture the non-linear, relational process with which people engage in perpetrator programs, and behavior change more broadly.
Research shows that different forms of child maltreatment often co-occur, including child sexual abuse (CSA) and children’s exposure to adult domestic violence (DV). However, the extent of this co-occurrence remains poorly understood. This article presents findings from a scoping review of articles reporting prevalence data for co-occurring CSA and DV.
This practical guide from the UK Evaluation Society explores how evaluators can use AI tools responsibly and transparently across all stages of the evaluation process.
An exploratory study that considers practice, policy and research on what might help or inhibit children and young people to be safe online.
