A Griffith University-led team will examine the scope and quality of Australian social work research to determine its effectiveness and ways to improve the quality of services in child protection, disability and aged care.
A renowned child protection expert with more than 30 years’ experience in social work has been named as the inaugural Leneen Forde Chair of Child Protection Research at Griffith.
Griffith University is partnering with UNICEF and the Indonesian Government to ameliorate child protection and social work structures in Indonesia....
Professor Sharon Dawe from Griffith Health Institute and Paul Harnett from UQ discuss the challenges protection workers face regarding child maltreatment.
Griffith University researchers have investigated the characteristics of child sexual abuse offenders who evade detection for long periods of time.
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill Professor, University of New South Wales & Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Sydney 23 October 2018...
Child rights lawyer and Griffith Law School academic Kate van Doore has been recognised at this year’s prestigious Anti-Slavery Australia Freedom Awards after more than a year working to increase awareness around the insidious problem of child trafficking through orphanages in developing countries.
Australia must do more to stop child trafficking in developing nations says Kate van Doore, leading international child rights lawyer.
The Australian government seems intent on lessening protections for children adopted overseas despite national and international evidence showing greater protection is needed, writes Dr Patricia Fronek.
It’s not just refugees being sent overseas. Prime minister Tony Abbott is prepared to hand over Australia’s obligations towards children to countries that are not party to the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.
