- The Protective Insight
The writing, gathered in one place.
Essays and advocacy that connect one family’s story to the systemic failures behind it. Media framing, grooming, institutional failure, and the freeze response parents are never warned about.
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- Essays & advocacy
The Protective Insight.
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Bonnie Blue's Newborn Videos: What a Child Protection Worker Actually Sees
Karyann Parkinson is on a child abuse and neglect registry for seven years because her five-year-old walked to a pond. B…
What Would Happen If? A Simple Protective Behaviours Conversation for Parents
Reform takes years. Conversations take minutes. The four-minute conversations that can help children recognise grooming,…
Delayed disclosure in childcare is the norm, so why are we treating silence as safety?
Ashley Griffith made abuse material of 64 of the 65 children he was convicted of abusing. The one he didn’t record came…
Childcare Closures: Parents Aren’t Buying the Safety Promise
This week Edge Early Learning went into administration with 68 centres. In April, G8 Education suspended 40. A year into…
Child Safety Is Our Highest Priority: What Mining Knows That Childcare Doesn't
I've worked inside two industries where that sentence meant something. Childcare isn't one of them.
Following the Lightscape
A psychologist reflects on childhood trauma, protective behaviours, nervous system healing and the unexpected glimmers o…
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