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This initiative is part of the Data Insights Roadmap, which comprises six streams of work and represents a program of short, medium and longer-term initiatives. Across the six streams, there is a focus on building capacity and capability of the DFSV service sector.
In this Academy of Imperfection episode, Jess Hill explains to Hugh, Ryan and Josh the unrelenting system of entrapment that many women find themselves in, including a detailed look at the history of coercive control, and the term ‘perspecticide’.
This resource sheet provides information on the minimum age of criminal responsibility across Australia’s states and territories and outlines planned changes to the minimum age in different Australian jurisdictions. It also answers some common questions about the minimum age of criminal responsibility, including why it exists, what the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) says about the minimum age of criminal responsibility and how Australia compares to the rest of the world.
The Australian Child Maltreatment Study conducts gold standard research with direct policy and practice impact. These factsheets include all knowledge translation products.
The aim of this paper is to illustrate the extent to which a youth justice service might be considered receptive and ready to adopt a new model of care. This study reports the findings of a policy audit and workforce survey of community youth justice staff in one Australian jurisdiction, South Australia.
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 review calls for urgent reforms in early childhood education, including a national worker register, stronger screening, and improved inspections and centre environments. It also recommends overhauling the Working with Children Check and Reportable Conduct Scheme and enhancing workforce support and parental transparency.
Families and caregivers facing aggression from children and adolescents often feel isolated, misunderstood, and unsure of where to turn. This groundbreaking clinical manual provides a comprehensive, neuroscience-informed approach to understanding and addressing Aggression Toward Family/Caregivers in Childhood and Adolescence (AFCCA). Written by Dr. Maude Champagne, RSW, MSW, PhD, with contributions from leading experts in neurodevelopmental disorders, trauma, and therapeutic interventions, this manual offers evidence-based strategies, real-life case studies, and practical tools for professionals.
This study was commissioned as part of the South Australian Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence to examine the experiences of children and young people who have lived through violence and navigated support systems in South Australia. Drawing on interviews with 53 children and young people aged 13–18 years old, the Silence and Inaction report presents the voices of those whose perspectives are too often absent from policy, service design, and systems reform efforts.
