Health and allied health professionals are uniquely positioned to collaborate in prevention,
early intervention and responses to child maltreatment. Effective collaboration requires …

This chapter delivers an overview of child protection services in Australia and New Zealand.
Both nations' main concern primarily revolves around numerous reports of children at risk …

Using aggregated national data, this paper re‐examines the outcomes of the Australian and
Norwegian protective systems during the past decade and compares it to the trends and …

Internationally, particularly in anglophone countries, there are increasing calls for a new
vision for child welfare involving significant shifts in service delivery from a statutory …

Increasingly complex practice contexts challenge social workers' resilience, impacting
workforce attraction and retention. This study comprised longitudinal and qualitative …

Nurses and midwives can be instrumental to global efforts to address child abuse and
neglect through a public health approach of prevention and early intervention. However …

Children and young people who live in out-of-home care (OoHC) can display aggressive
behaviours when their emerging self-regulation and executive functioning systems are …

Child welfare and child protection systems are entrenched institutionally and their value
stances on working with marginalized groups are, at times, antithetical to the value …

Purpose Professionals working with children, including nurses and midwives, are
foundational to effectively safeguarding children from maltreatment. However, little is known …

Abstract Aim This study explored Australian nursing, midwifery and social work perspectives
on needs within pre-service education to enable interprofessional public health responses …