Topic: Growing risks in the digital age: How online sexual exposure is shaping learner behaviour

Topic: Intentional child neglect by parents and caregivers

Topic: From informed bystanders to active protectors: Building safer schools through legal care, heart care and professional partnership

Topic: Holistic protection for Deaf children in South Africa

Topic: Child maltreatment assessment models in custody dispute cases: A rapid review

Topic: My Body, My Voice, My Future

Topic: Risk and protective factors influencing adolescent sexual abuse: Perspectives of parents and social workers at The Teddy Bear Foundation

Topic: Male children’s delayed disclosure of sexual abuse: A scoping review

Topic: Digital self-exploitation: How children are using social media and AI to sell intimate content and the urgent child protection implications

Topic: Protective Behaviours to create safer communities, free from violence

Topic Paper 1: Crisis within a crisis: Child-headed households and the struggle for children’s rights to protection, food and education

Topic Paper 2: Who protects the boy child? The hidden burden of boys heading child-headed households in South Africa

Topic: Safeguarding the best interests of children through forensic assessments and evidence-based research after divorce

Topic: Engaging fathers in child sexual abuse prevention: Perspectives from the West Rand, Gauteng Province

Topic: Psychological Manipulation and Abuse in High-Control Groups (e.g. cults) – Parental Belief, Professional Concern, and the Child’s Best Interests

Topic: Essential components of an ideal educational social work programme on child rape for parents and caregivers in South Africa: An argumentative literature review

Topic: The examination as evidence and as surveillance: Colposcopic imaging and alcohol exposure as twin failures of structured data capture in South Africa’s response to child abuse and gender-based violence

Topic: Trauma-informed strengths-based interventions to foster children’s resilience and well-being in the context of child maltreatment

Topic: The school social work role in operationalising child protection as a designated safeguarding officer

Topic: Beyond the child: Addressing foster and safety parents’ trauma in trauma-informed child protection practice

Topic: Building resilient child protection systems in rural South Africa: Lessons from public health administration

Topic: Modulating strategies for assessing autistic children using the NICHD assessment protocol: A literature review

Topic: Developing a training programme for social workers in Limpopo Province dealing with care and contact matters regarding children

Topic: The role of birth registration data in strengthening stakeholder collaboration and policy responses to statutory rape in South Africa

Topic: South African forensic social workers’ perspectives on assessing children with disabilities who are allegedly sexually abused