A coding error when the OneSchool reporting system was implemented early this year meant some principal-reported cases received a notification their report had been accepted by the police, but the reports never made it to police servers.

Podcast: Genetics describes DNA sequencing, but epigenetics sees that genes can be turned on and off and expressed differently through changes in environment and behavior. Rachel Yehuda is a pioneer in understanding how the effects of stress and trauma can transmit biologically, beyond cataclysmic events, to the next generation.

Study finds exposure to a greater number of childhood risk factors was significantly related to fewer years of education, more anxiety and depression symptomatology, and more criminal arrests in adulthood.

Analyses revealed that exposure to greater levels of interparental conflict, more chaos in the household, and a higher number of years in poverty can be empirically distinguished as key contributors to 58-month old's ability to recognise and modulate negative emotion.

Study findings suggest that during a sensitive period of attachment formation, infants who spend more than 60 hours per week in nonmaternal care may be at an increased risk of formaing a disorganised attachment.

Family courts lack of information about parents' history of family violence when deciding on parenting orders for their children. "There is a potential for greater risk to children in these matters."

A new protocol has been designed by a Europe-wide team to help uncover hidden domestic violence in infants.

"As of Term 1 next year, NSW schools will teach students in Years eight to 10 about how to recognise - and possibly prevent - domestic violence in their households."

US researchers release the first test ever constructed to assess Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder—a problematic syndrome of grief.  The new assessment tool, called the PCBD Checklist for Youth, was developed for children who are having difficulty coping with a death.

Lesson #3: The impact on children begins early, and it's insidious

"Although childhood trauma and family adversity can increase vulnerability to serious mental health problems, uncertainty exists about the nature and prevalence in a clinical population. This embedded research aims to establish the prevalence of trauma and adversity in young people seeking help from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)."

Children can literally sense fear through skin contact with their parents and are impacted by violence into adulthood.

Strong family bonds was found to help raise self-esteem and reduce anxiety in young people exposed to parental/caregiver domestic violence. This protective effect occured when violence was physical or psychological.

"Our child death review work has shown there is a clear link between familial fatal abuse of children and perpetrators who were already known serious violent offenders" Ombudsman Barbour said.