Welcome to the Australian Centre for Child Protection
Founded by the University of South Australia and the Australian Government in 2005, the Centre has become known nationally and internationally as a key driver in advancing innovation in child protection policy and practice.
With an emphasis on building the evidence base and boosting best-practice care for children who are at high risk, our multidisciplinary team works on a range of projects with collaborators from government, community, academia, philanthropic and professional organisations and the not-for-profit sector.
The Australian Centre for Child Protection is funded by the Australian Government through the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
What's new
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The Australian Centre for Child Protection is sad to
farewell Professor Marianne Berry, Chair and
Director of the Australian Centre for Child
Protection, who has returned to the United States to
be with her family. Professor Berry has been
paramount in guiding the Centre into the
international arena for child protection research
and shaping the Centre's new and exciting future
directions. She is greatly admired and respected by
Centre staff and will be missed.
Emeritus Professor Dorothy Scott has kindly agreed to stand in as interim Director of the Australian Centre for Child Protection. - Following the very successful first Child & Family Sensitive Practice workshop, the Centre is running a second workshop over 9 & 10 February 2012. It will provide training for adult service professionals in facilitating child and family sensitive practice.
- Associate Professor Leah Bromfield authored an article in the December 2011 special issue on cumulative harm in SSPA News NZ, titled 'Minimising cumulative harm for vulnerable children: does the green paper reflect international best practice?'.
- Professor Colette McAuley, Chair of Social Work at University College Dublin, visited the Australian Centre for Child Protection on Thursday 1st December to meet the team and discuss her new international project. Professor McAuley has been granted an award from the Irish Research Council to carry out an international literature review on child protection and children in care. Her primary focuses are on the impact of family violence, parental mental illness and substance abuse on children. Professor McAuley's review draws on Australian and English research and she was keen to discuss the Centre's research in these areas. Professor McAuley was a visiting scholar based at the Centre from Thursday 1st December to Monday 5th December.
- The Australian Centre for Child Protection held its first highly successful Open Day on 1 December 2011, students, practitioners and others interested in our work toured the Centre and met our researchers.
- Professor Marianne Berry delivered a Knowledge Works lecture entitled " Critical Components of Service in Preventing Child Abuse and Preserving Families" for the University of South Australia on 11 October 2011.
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Professor Marianne Berry presented a Public
Lecture Series, 20 October 2011, Faculty of Human
Sciences, Macquarie University
"Essential Elements
of Best Practice in Child Protection".
- The Governor-General, Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC, visited UniSA’s Australian Centre for Child Protection on September 12. Ms Bryce, who has been the Patron of the Australian Centre for Child Protection since February 2009, has a long standing commitment to advancing the rights of women and children and a particular interest in the welfare of young people and families. The Governor-General along with her husband met with the Centre’s Director, Professor Marianne Berry and Deputy Director, Associate Professor Leah Bromfield to discuss contemporary child protection issues nationally and internationally and after the meeting met informally with Centre staff and students, the Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Høj and PVC of the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, Professor Pal Ahluwalia.
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NAPCAN announces
"Play
your part" campaign for National Child
Protection Week,
4-11 September 2011. - Nursing and Midwifery Education Curriculum Standards and accompanying Curriculum Materials released. Both available for download from our website "Professionals Protecting Children: Child Protection and Nursing and Midwifery Education Curriculum Standards" (pdf, 775Kb) and "Professionals Protecting Children: Nurturing and Protecting Children - A Public Health Approach.(pdf 827Kb)
- Learn from Experience - Share Professor Marianne Berry's unique and inspiring story.
- Child protection comes of age: read more about our work in the latest UniSA Magazine (pdf, 133KB)