Status of Women committee  What we're looking at right now is just a lot of descriptive data around the children and families we're seeing. We're also looking at evidence of collaboration, so how many cases, or representative cases, are actually showing evidence of joint investigation, joint assessment, co

Status of Women committee  The point you mentioned is clear within all the literature we look at, but we also see it evidenced through our data at the centre. I'm not completely sure why that exactly happens. I think there are a few factors. One is that violence is a learned behaviour. When you see violenc

Status of Women committee  Over the course of our first 16 months of operations two-thirds of the 2,000 children and youth assessed at the centre were girls. Of these 2,000 cases seven out of ten were for reports of sexual abuse, and two out of ten were for severe physical abuse or neglect. Ninety-three pe