From journal articles to Quick Guides and webinars, you will find tools and information to support.
The first session of the Centre's 'Centering the Child' Lunch & Learn series explored how family violence impacts child development and attachment. This session introduces a case scenario, includes a facilitated discussion with panelists, and highlights practical strategies for safe and sensitive engagement with children and young people.
This study examines the characteristics of parricide in Australia using 35 years of data from the National Homicide Monitoring Program. Parricide, or the homicide of a parent by their child, comprises five percent of homicides each year. Offenders were predominantly male but victimisation was more even. Parricide was largely gendered, with sons more likely to kill their fathers and daughters to kill their mothers. Offenders aged 10–17 years committed parricide at higher rates than older homicide offenders and almost a fifth of parricide offenders were delusional at the time of the homicide. Findings illustrate the distinctiveness of parricide and the greater need to consider this form of lethal violence in responses to family violence.
A significant number of children in the United Kingdom (UK) are counted as regular school non-attendees, with those who are neurodiverse and/or have underlying mental health conditions considered most at risk. Relatively little attention has explored the experiences of having a child who regularly does not attend school on the parents’ own mental health and wellbeing.
'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 examines the nuanced pathways and disparities in foster care entries and outcomes for Asian American children.
This guide is designed for anyone working in child protection, policy, practice, education, healthcare, research, justice or communications. It provides victim and survivor-informed language and definitions that are respectful, inclusive and trauma-informed.
This report aims to improve understanding, awareness and responses to intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) for practitioners working with people who use family violence. IPSV is a distinct tactic of family violence that often co-occurs with other forms of abuse. It is a high-risk indicator of escalating family violence that signals an increased likelihood of severe injury or death for victim survivors.
The research documents evidence from 225 Victorian frontline workers about their experiences of police responses to family violence. It finds that harmful family violence policing practices are extremely frequent and widespread across the state, and that alternative community-based response pathways for victim-survivors are urgently needed. The report details extensive examples of police minimising and dismissing family violence, engaging in racially targeted, sexist and discriminatory police practices, colluding with perpetrators in ways that extend violence and abuse, and misidentifying victim-survivors as perpetrators. It also shows that many workers have witnessed cases of police-perpetrated family violence as well as widespread institutional protection of, and collusion with, offices who are abusive.
