Podcast: Imagine if your father or mother is somewhere you can’t really tell people about, or if you do tell, there may be judgment or shame.  This is a common reality for a child with a parent in prison. Family structures drastically change so everyone can end up feel like they are ‘doing time'.

This article, no. 9 in a series, discusses what we know now about what works when helping vulnerable families and ways forward.

This eighth part of a series lists promising examples of innovative responses to Indigenous child maltreatment, approaches which represent a shift from a 'power over' to a 'power sharing' relationship, and a focus on professional/personal development for workers/carers.

Podcast: Around a quarter of a million four and five year olds will start school next year, but a national survey of school readiness says that one-in-five don't have the social, emotional or language skills to cope in the classroom.

While the number of children in out-of-home care increases, 14% of foster carers cease their caring roles. This seventh part of a series looks at the current model of foster care in Australia, and discusses the importance of supporting existing carers.

The sixth of a series, this article focuses on complex trauma and its associated personal, social and economic costs.

This article is the fifth part of a series.  It discusses outcomes of children in care and why there is limited evidence for long-term outcomes.

An edited version of a speech given by Hon Justice Peter McClellan, chairman of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Using the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Core Data set, researchers find that psychological abuse was the most enduring form of maltreatment with children.

This prospective longitudinal study highlights ways that children's emotion recognition and modulation of negative emotion may be powerfully shaped by interparental conflict and other forms of poverty-related adversity, from infancy to early childhood.

"Because (child sexual abuse) thrives on silence and secrecy, the antidote is bringing the issue to light."

Australian child protection agencies are struggling to cope with the rise in demand for their services. This article, a first of a series, suggests prevention efforts to be able to respond to the contemporary problem of child maltreatment.

The rate of children who were subject of notifications for the NT and the ACT have increased significantly since 2003-04. Find this and other data on Australia's child protection services in this infographic.

A second part of a series on child protection in Australia, this article discusses what constitutes 'best practice' in child protection and the need for skilled people to do the work.