Australia's 2017 Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse recommended to organizations that children should participate in decisions affecting their lives as a safety standard. While a substantial body of research about children's voices in statutory or out‐of‐home care now exists, there remains a paucity of research into children's voices in family support services delivered by nongovernment organizations. This is despite the primary service purpose being to benefit children. This lack of focus in family support was identified as a research priority by a nongovernment organization in Queensland, Australia, which lead to a collaborative research programme. This article reports on initial research from a survey study to describe the current state of play from practitioners into their perceptions and practices of children's participation in family support contexts. A voluntary and anonymous online, qualitative‐predominate survey was opened to 110 practitioners in family support services, of which 50% responded. The findings identified that children's voices were compromised by perceptions of children's capacity relating to age and vulnerability, the parental focus of the service coupled with perceptions of parent's needs and gatekeeping behaviours and service pressures that work against the conditions required for children's rights to voice.

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家庭支持服务中对儿童声音的影响：从业者的观点

澳大利亚 2017 年皇家委员会对儿童性虐待的机构回应建议组织，儿童应该参与影响他们生活的决策，作为安全标准。虽然现在有大量关于儿童在法定或户外护理中的声音的研究，但对非政府组织提供的家庭支持服务中儿童的声音的研究仍然很少。尽管主要服务目的是使儿童受益，但这仍然是。澳大利亚昆士兰的一个非政府组织将家庭支持的缺乏重点确定为一项研究重点，并促成了一项合作研究计划。本文报告了一项调查研究的初步研究，以描述从业者对儿童参与家庭支持环境的看法和实践的当前游戏状态。向 110 名家庭支持服务从业者开放了一项自愿和匿名的在线定性调查，其中 50% 做出了回应。调查结果表明，儿童的声音受到与年龄和脆弱性相关的儿童能力的看法、父母对服务的关注以及对父母需求的看法以及看门行为和服务压力的影响，这些压力与儿童的发言权所需的条件相悖。向 110 名家庭支持服务从业者开放了定性调查，其中 50% 做出了回应。调查结果表明，儿童的声音受到与年龄和脆弱性相关的儿童能力的看法、父母对服务的关注以及对父母需求的看法以及看门行为和服务压力的影响，这些压力与儿童的发言权所需的条件相悖。向 110 名家庭支持服务从业者开放了定性调查，其中 50% 做出了回应。调查结果表明，儿童的声音受到与年龄和脆弱性相关的儿童能力的看法、父母对服务的关注以及对父母需求的看法以及看门行为和服务压力的影响，这些压力与儿童的发言权所需的条件相悖。