Our safety counts: Children and young people’s perceptions of safety and institutional responses to their safety concerns

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2016

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This study attempts to better understand children and young people’s perceptions of safety within institutions, and their views on how adults and institutions are responding to their safety needs. It is not a prevalence study and does not attempt to quantify the extent to which children and young people have encountered abuse. Instead, it asks them to consider how they, adults and institutions currently demonstrate that they are safe; and the ways they believe adults and institutions act and would act to keep them safe if they were in a situation where their safety was compromised.

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clergy abuse, child abuse, International Resources, Australia, institutional abuse

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Moore, T., McArthur, M., Heerde, J., Roche, S. & O’Leary, P. (2016).Our safety counts: Children and young people’s perceptions of safety and institutional responses to their safety concerns. Melbourne: Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University.

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