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News and Events

Below are details of current news items and event announcements for the Australian Centre for Child Protection. 

News

• 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.
• On 1 of December 2011 the Australian Centre for Child Protection held its first, highly successful Open Day, welcoming students and interested professionals to the Centre. Visitors enjoyed an informal chat with Centre staff over tea, coffee and nibbles before listening to a presentation by our Deputy Director Leah Bromfield about the Centre's current projects and future directions, followed by an informal Q&A session. Information about potential Honours and higher degree student projects was also disseminated.
• Arney, F., Bromfield, L., Lewig, K., Michaux, A., Antcliff, G. & Mildon, R. (2012) 'Chapter 12: Facilitating Evidence-Informed Practice: Participatory Knowledge Translation and Exchange' in Dill, K. & Shera, W. (Eds) Implementing Evidence-Informed Practice: International Perspectives. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
• 'Minimising cumulative harm for vulnerable children: does the green paper reflect international best practice?', SSPA News special issue on cumulative harm, December 2011 edition.
• Child Protection Harming Children, ABC Radio National, Life Matters, 3 November 2011
• Associate Professor Leah Bromfield was interviewed on Channel 7 News, 25 September 2011 in regard to the Child Neglect Inquiry that was never held regarding the 2008 Parafield Gardens case involving 21 children.
• 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.
• NAPCAN announces "Play your part" campaign for National Child Protection Week, 4-11 September 2011.
• "Valuable lessons from Aussie system of mandatory reporting" The Irish Times, 9 August 2011.
• "Mandatory child abuse reports 'could do more harm than good'," The Irish Times, 21 July 2011.
• "Mandatory abuse reporting warning" The Irish Times, 10 June 2011.
• "Extreme commitment: US foster care developments" , ABC Radio National, Life Matters, 31 May 2011.
• "ACT child neglect costs $33m, report says" The Canberra Times, 13 May 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)
• Shelley Wright, Australian Centre for Child Protection scholarship holder has been nominated as one of three finalists for the Best Clinical Paper Award for Paediatrics at the Occupational Therapy Australia National Conference on the Gold Coast in June 2011. Shelley’s paper is entitled “Is playfulness a key to resilience in vulnerable children?” and is based on part of her PhD which has been funded by the Centre.
• Sharon Vincent, Research Fellow at Centre for Learning in Child Protection visits Australian Centre for Child Protection, 18 October 2010
• Supporting families with complex problems key to child protection: UniSA media release (Dec 2010)
• Child protection comes of age, UniSA Magazine, Spring 2010
• National Child Protection Week: 5-12 September 2010
• Dorothy Scott speech (wma file, 9.5MB, approx 30 mins), Association of Children's Welfare Agencies Conference Dinner, 4 Aug 2010
• "Child welfare in the election", ABC Radio National, Life Matters, 5 August 2010.
• New Leadership Team Commences, 2 August 2010.
• "Abuse and neglect", The Australian, 28 July 2010.

Events

• 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.
• 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 was a visiting scholar based at the Centre from Thursday 1st December to Monday 5th December.
• Child & Family Sensitive Practice workshop 24 & 25 November 2011. Training for adult service professionals in facilitating child and family sensitive practice.
• 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.
• Professor Marianne Berry presented a Public Lecture Series on 20 October 2011 for the Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University "Essential Elements of Best Practice in Child Protection.
  
• Seminar Announcement, 3 May 2011, "The Lives of Others:  Incarcerated Mothers, Their Histories of Victimization and the Consequences for Their Children" by International Visiting Scholar Margaret Severson, MSW, JD, Associate Professor, School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas.  Download presentation from seminar (pdf 8Mb)..
• "When More Means Less: Cumulative Risks and their Impact on Children's and Families' Outcomes", by International Visiting Scholar Judith J Carta, PhD., Director of Early Childhood Research at the Juniper Gardens Children's Project, Senior Scientist, Institute for Life Span Studies and Professor of Special Education, University of Kansas.Seminar Announcement, 17 March 2011 (pdf 91Kb) Download PowerPoint presentation from seminar.(.ppt, 4.26Mb)

Links

• Juniper Garden Children's Project, The University of Kansas.
• Journal of Children's Services, Practical evidence for service improvement.

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