NAPCAN Survey

About the Survey

NAPCAN (www.napcan.org.au) initiated this survey as a key element in the campaign to engage the whole community in action to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Waiting to respond until after a child is abused does not work - we must prevent the abuse before it happens.

To do this we must bring child abuse out into the open - recognise that it is an issue across our whole community and together find effective ways to prevent it.

An important first step is understanding what people know and think about child abuse - and so the idea of this survey was born - to encourage every man and woman in Australia to think and talk about this issue and to share their knowledge and opinions.

6 of Australia's leading social researchers gave their time to work with NAPCAN to develop the survey:

1. Assoc Prof Judy Cashmore, Defence of Children International
2.Dr Adam Tomison, Menzies Institute/Australian Institute of Criminology
3. Dr Leah Bromfiled, Australian Institute of Family Studies
4. Dr Fiona Amey, Centre for Child Protection, University of SA
5. Dr Joe Tucci, Australian Childhood Foundation
6.Prof Rob Donovan, Centre for Behavioural Research, Curtin University

With a grant from the Commonwealth Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, the survey was designed, tested and placed on the NAPCAN website.

Business, government, community and media organisations right across the country are now helping to promote the survey and encouraging everyone to complete it.

The results of the survey will be used by NAPCAN and its broad range of partner organisations to plan better, more effective ways, to involve the whole community in prevention of child abuse.

Responses to the survey will be handled with integrity and respect and the survey has received ethics approval. Individual responses will remain completely anonymous.

Your contribution to this survey will make a difference.