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Child Abuse Prevention Research Australia



Protect and Respect the Child



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Contact details
Child Abuse Prevention
Research Australia
Building 70
Monash University
Clayton Campus
Australia
Telephone: +61 3 9902 4486
Email: capra@monash.edu

CAPRA moves to new Institute

Monash University Injury Research Institute is unique in its dedication to the prevention, management and rehabilitation of injury, across the full range of injury types, causes, and settings, and across the full range of age groups of people concerned.

The Institute draws on Monash University's strengths in all disciplines including the humanities, and the health, physical and social sciences to define the problems, identify their causes and develop solutions.

The specialist, multi-disciplinary research teams within the Institute work with collaborating partners from government, community and industry to prevent injuries, save lives and build futures.

Protect and Respect the Child

Child Abuse Prevention Research Australia is a strategic collaboration between the Australian Childhood Foundation and Monash University.
Purpose: To make children safe
How: We develop evidence to support policy and practice, and material to educate the community on how to identify and deal with child abuse.

Research

 social work practice Goddard, C., & Hunt, S. (2011). The complexities of caring for child protection workers: the contexts of practice and supervision. Journal of Social Work Practice, 25(4), 413-32.

Best Practice Issues in Child Death Reviews (pdf 0.97Mb)

A presentation by Dr John Devaney, School of Sociology, Social Policy & Social Work, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Presented July 12 2011.

 Saunders, B., & Goddard, C. (2010).  Physical Punishment in Childhood: The Rights of the Child. Chichester and New York: Wiley.

No Child Sex Trafficking


Community Attitudes on Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People Survey Report.

 

Advocacy

Hell on the way to Heaven Hell on the way to Heaven by Chrissie Foster with Paul Kennedy
This is an awful yet compelling story of the rape of children and the complicity of the church. Every journalist interviewing a senior member of the Catholic Church must now ask one question: ‘Are you telling the truth, or are you using ”mental reservation”, trying to lie without lying?’ Professor Chris Goddard ...more

 

Submissions

Submission to the Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry

By Professor Chris Goddard, Dr Neerosh Mudaly and Dr John Frederick

An Act for Compliance, or an Act for Children?

By Professor Chris Goddard and Rebecca Newton

A Submission in relation to the Commonwealth Commissioner for Children and Young People Bill 2010; A Bill for an Act to Establish an Independent Office of the Commonwealth Commissioner for Children and Young People, and for related purposes.

 Reports

 

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"It takes me a little longer to get angry now"

By Dr Neerosh Mudaly

A preliminary evaluation of an animal-assisted education and therapy group. The full evaluation has been funded by PETstock Foundation.

In the News

November 7 2011
The Herald Sun
Chris Goddard quoted in: 
Hundreds of teens flown in to marry older Australians

October 3 2011
Community Care
Jim Wild
Social workers struggle with hostile and intimidating parents

August 30 2011
ABC Radio PM, Chris Goddard interviewed:
Scathing report into NSW child protection system

August 25 2011
The Australian, Chris Goddard & Neerosh Mudaly Opinion Piece: 
Crimes cloaked in euphemisms

Lead in news story

The Australian
Suicide girls on antidepressants banned in Britain

Editorial
The Australian
Tear back curtain of shame

August 20 2011
The Australian, Chris Goddard quoted in: 
Teenage girls killed themselves under Child Safety watch

The Australian
Official failure leads to lives lost

April 20 2011
Geelong Advertiser, Bernadette Saunders quoted in:
Expert warns against physical child discipline

April 12 2011
The Australian, Chris Goddard quoted in:
Arthur Freeman gets 30 years for daughter's murder