Events
CPPAQ – 2025 Leneen Forde Public Address
CPPAQ – 2025 Leneen Forde Public Address
Understanding the Nature, Prevalence and Impact of Child Maltreatment: What This Means for Child Protection Practice
Date: Thursday, 28 August 2025
Times:
- 5:30pm – Registration
- 6:00pm – Welcome & Presentation by Prof. Daryl Higgins
- 7.00pm – Q&A with Prof. Daryl Higgins and Prof. James Scott
- 7:30pm – Networking Reception
- 8:30pm – Event concludes
Venue:
Banco Court, Supreme Court of Queensland, 415 George Street, Brisbane
Speaker:
Professor Daryl Higgins, Chief Investigator – Australian Child Maltreatment Study, Director of the Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University.
Speaker Bio:
Professor Daryl Higgins is the Director of the Institute of Child Protection Studies at Australian Catholic University. For over 30 years, he has been researching child abuse prevalence, impacts, and prevention; public health approaches to protecting children; child-safe organisational strategies; and public health approaches to promoting child and family wellbeing. He was a Chief Investigator on the Australian Child Maltreatment Study, the first national study of the prevalence in Australia of child abuse and neglect, and its health outcomes.
RSVP – 21 August 2025
FREE FOR CPPAQ MEMBERS (discount applied at checkout)
NON-MEMBERS $50
LIVESTREAM TICKET $25
