This Executive Summary presents key findings from this research project entitled Child Abuse and Neglect: A Socio-legal Study of Mandatory Reporting in Australia. A comprehensive treatment of our analysis is presented in the full Report.
A key component of this project was to access government data to analyse the reporting of different types of child abuse and neglect, by different reporter groups (both mandated reporters such as police, and non-mandated reporters), over the decade 2003-12 in the Australian Capital Territory.
This summary captures some of the most important trends identified by our analysis, which can inform future advances to policy and practice.
