The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse - as with other organisations developing recommendations for preventing institutional child sexual abuse - need to consider the successful 'implementability' of their recommendations. Following on from research on strategies for developing clear, realistic and implementable recommendations, this new report investigates best practice in implementation. It assesses the evidence on best practice in implementation planning, oversight, monitoring, and evaluation, and what is known about the barriers to - and facilitators of - implementation. The context of implementing reforms aimed at preventing institutional child sexual abuse and improving institutional responses to this type of abuse is also considered.
An essential element of out-of-home care is for a child to be safe and secure; however, there are ongoing allegations of child abuse and neglect. This report briefly investigates the nature, extent, and quality of the international evidence on preventing child sexual abuse in out-of-home care. It provides an overview of the literature, including gaps in the evidence, whether recommendations can be made for practice, and whether there is a large enough body of evidence to warrant a more detailed systematic review. While this scoping review did not uncover a wide range of effective practices and programs to deal prevent such abuse in care, it has revealed some potential strategies that can be tested, over time. This is a revised version, incorporating corrections.
This report identifies what elements make an institution 'child safe', based on the opinions of a panel of experts. An adapted Delphi Study was used to obtain advice, opinion, and consensus from a panel of independent Australian and international experts - including academics, children's commissioners and guardians, and industry experts and practitioners - regarding the key principles, elements and sub-elements of child safe organisations.
To help the Royal Commission with its work, this report was commissioned to review the nature and extent of the evidence on the effectiveness of pre-employment screening practices that aim to prevent child sexual abuse. Evaluation studies from Australia and overseas were reviewed, and their findings, suggestions and recommendations discussed. Though this scoping review did not reveal any rigorous evaluations of the effects of pre-employment screening practices on rates of child sexual abuse - not surprising given the methodological difficulties involved - the literature does suggest that pre-employment screening practices most likely contribute to safeguarding children.
Depression is a widespread condition affecting approximately 7.5 million parents in the U.S. each year and may be putting at least 15 million children at risk for adverse health outcomes. Based on evidentiary studies, major depression in either parent can interfere with parenting quality and increase the risk of children developing mental, behavioral and social problems. Depression in Parents, Parenting, and Children highlights disparities in the prevalence, identification, treatment, and prevention of parental depression among different sociodemographic populations. It also outlines strategies for effective intervention and identifies the need for a more interdisciplinary approach that takes biological, psychological, behavioral, interpersonal, and social contexts into consideration. A major challenge to the effective management of parental depression is developing a treatment and prevention strategy that can be introduced within a two-generation framework, conducive for parents and their children. Thus far, both the federal and state response to the problem has been fragmented, poorly funded, and lacking proper oversight. This study examines options for widespread implementation of best practices as well as strategies that can be effective in diverse service settings for diverse populations of children and their families. The delivery of adequate screening and successful detection and treatment of a depressive illness and prevention of its effects on parenting and the health of children is a formidable challenge to modern health care systems. This study offers seven solid recommendations designed to increase awareness about and remove barriers to care for both the depressed adult and prevention of effects in the child. The report will be of particular interest to federal health officers, mental and behavioral health providers in diverse parts of health care delivery systems, health policy staff, state legislators, and the general public.
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