Taking us seriously: children and young people talk about safety and institutional responses to their safety concerns
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2015
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Moore, T.
McArthur, M.
Noble Carr, D.
Harcourt, D.
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Although many studies have identified better practice approaches to protecting children in institutions, most fail to consider children and young people's views on what they need to be safe and how they would like institutions and the wider community to respond when safety concerns emerge. This report was commissioned to develop an understanding of how children perceive safety within institutional contexts. Drawing on focus groups with 121 children and young people aged from 4 to 18 years old, the report explores how children and young people conceptualise and perceive safety, what gives rise to these perceptions, how institutions currently address safety concerns, and what more could be done.
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Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2015. All material presented in this publication is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0Australia licence. For the avoidance of doubt, this means this licence only applies to material as set out in this document. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/)