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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.
The study explored practices and responses that enable or hinder disclosures of CSA, in order to enhance service system responses.
'Unsafe and Unseen: Spotlighting the needs and experiences of unaccompanied young people seeking shelter' builds on an important evidence base that engages directly with young people, situating them as the both the experts of their own lived experiences and the most vital voices in advocating for change.
This report examines the experiences of children and young people aged between 10 and 17 years who are respondents to family violence intervention orders (FVIOs) and personal safety intervention orders (PSIOs).
This study explores how young victim-survivors in Victoria experience and navigate the crisis support system when escaping family violence. It was designed using a trauma-informed, child-centred research framework and comprised three phases: a desktop mapping of existing services; stakeholder workshops with Victorian practice and service delivery experts; and in-depth interviews with young people aged 16 to 25 years old with lived experience of family violence and seeking help in Victoria. Despite the substantial reform agenda that has been progressed in the nearly ten years since the Royal Commission into Family Violence (RCFV, 2016), the family violence service system in Victoria remains predominantly adult-centric and often fails to recognise young people as victim-survivors in their own right. Critical gaps persist in ensuring young people - particularly unaccompanied minors - can access safe housing, specialist support services, and clear pathways that support their stability, healing and recovery
This article presents findings from a pre-training survey conducted in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, with child protection and law enforcement professionals. The results reinforce calls for embedding a systemic framework for disrupting CSE across key areas: (1) legislation reform, (2) strengthening organisational policy and (3) workforce upskilling in proactive disruptive practices.
This article presents findings from a secondary analysis of data from the Adolescent Family Violence in Australia (AFVA) study—the first national study of the nature, prevalence and impacts of AFV in Australia. The AFVA study involved an online survey of 5021 young people aged 16–20.
This study presents a model which can support child protection practitioners in working with families in which DFV is identified as a risk to the safety and wellbeing of children. The model builds on the important work of other researchers who have highlighted existing problems in the way child protection systems respond to domestic violence. Moreover, it treads new ground by approaching domestic violence as a heterogenous issue which requires nuanced and individual responses, with a particular focus on differentiating between coercive control and situational couple violence.
This independent evaluation assessed the effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of Refuge Victoria's Play Therapy Program.
