From ANROWS research project RP.14.19 - The PATRICIA Project: Pathways And Research In Collaborative Inter-Agency working

The Pathways analysis is one component of the PATRICIA Project which examined the systems level interface1 between the child protection (CP) and domestic and family violence (DFV) systems using longitudinal, unit record data obtained from CP in New South Wales (NSW), Victoria (Vic), and Western Australia (WA). The purpose of this analysis is to understand how child protection systems deal with families where DFV is identified in an initial report of a child
maltreatment concern, and how these cases differ from those where DFV is not reported.