Short article Aug 2017
Investigating the complex links between maltreatment and youth offending
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This article explores what’s known about the complex relationship between child maltreatment and youth offending.
Short article Aug 2017
This article explores what’s known about the complex relationship between child maltreatment and youth offending.
Family Matters article Aug 1992
Short article Nov 2018
This short article provides a summary of the National Apology to Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse delivered in October 2018.
Family Matters article Apr 1998
This article provides information on the First Conference of the International Society of Quality-of-Life Studies, held in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1997.
Webinar Aug 2017
This webinar explored the experiences of parents with children in care and outlined emerging family inclusive practice strategies.
Short article Aug 2018
This short article discusses promising practices to help support contact between carers and birth families for children in permanent care.
Family Matters article Apr 1992
The paper examines the effects of the recession on 54 families with at least one unemployed member and a low income or families who were experiencing severe economic hardship for some other reason such as a substantial decline in the income of self-employed people.
Policy and practice paper Apr 1998
Examines the effects of child sexual abuse on social, sexual and interpersonal functioning, and its role in the broader aspects of mental health.
Short article May 2018
A recent study found that adults who were abused as children in out-of-home care experienced a range of negative outcomes persisting into later life.
Family Matters article Sep 1998