September 8, 2022

Child Protection Week Webinar hosted by NAPCAN Australia

Yesterday as a part of Child Protection Week Prof Ben Mathews, Prof Daryl Higgins, and Dr Divna Haslam shared some early ACMS findings about the link between child maltreatment,...

July 22, 2022

Major new article published on researchers’ legal duties in child maltreatment surveys

Research on child maltreatment is essential to generate new knowledge and inform advances in policy and practice. However, researchers must comply with a range of legal duties to survey...

June 16, 2022

The Prevalence of Corporal Punishment in Australia

ACMS investigators Prof Ben Mathews, Prof Daryl Higgins, and...

December 13, 2021

New Paper on the Ethics of Maltreatment Research Surveys in Relation to Participant Distress

This month we published an important paper that examines...

October 12, 2021

Data collection complete!

Thank you Australia! The Australian Child Maltreatment Study has...

August 25, 2021

PhD Scholarships Available!

We are happy to announce that are two PhD...

July 16, 2021

Data collection update: All age strata, except youth, now filled!

Since the ACMS data collection began in April this...

May 13, 2021

Hot off the presses: Protocol paper published!

The Protocol Paper for the Australian Child Maltreatment Study...

April 12, 2021

Comprehensive study of child maltreatment in Australia launches

This week the national Australian Child Maltreatment Study (ACMS)...

December 14, 2020

Presentation to Australian Child Safe Sectors Leadership Group

On 9 December 2020, Professor Ben Mathews delivered a...

November 30, 2020

ACMS Presentation to the Children and Family Secretaries Child Safety Working Group

On 20 November 2020, Professor Ben Mathews and Professor...

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