Early Intervention

Today is the United Nations World Children’s Day. 20 November marks the date in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. It is also the date in 1989 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This year UNICEF Australia are encouraging everyone […]

Hayley Boxall, Australian National University; Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University, and Silke Meyer, Griffith University Domestic and family violence (DFV) has received increasing attention in recent years. It is most commonly associated with intimate partner violence between current and former partners, followed by abuse perpetrated against children by their parents and carers. But what about sibling […]

Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon has co-authored an article published this week in Child Protection and Practice with Professor Silke Meyer (Griffith University) and María Atiénzar-Prieto. Drawing on their ANROWS funded survey of over 5,000 young people in Australia, the article examines children’s experiences of family violence and the role of different types of child maltreatment on […]

This week, in her capacity as a Professor (Practice) at Monash University, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon and colleagues have released a new report, Securing Women’s Lives. The report presents the findings from their analysis of 235 sentencing judgments in cases of male perpetrator intimate partner femicide. The study examined risk and system interactions prior to the intimate […]

Principal consultant, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, has co-authored an article with Matt Tyler,Executive Director of community and systems impact at Jesuit Social Services.