Collaboration across child protection and domestic and family violence (DFV) sectors have long been sought despite the competing priorities found in these practice fields. This article describes a research partnership that aimed to explore the competing priorities by focusing on how workers interact across child protection and DFV specialist agencies. Using a Living Lab Approach, enabled twelve focus groups with child protection and DFV social workers (n = 100). Thematic analysis was conducted, and it was found that diverse understandings of DFV created tensions when trying to form collaborations. These tensions were often amplified when other intersecting issues were present in family lives such as drug and alcohol and mental health problems. Understandings of Aboriginal cultural safety, and religious and culture impacts for cultural and linguistically diverse families were unintentionally sidelined. However, practitioners also formed common understandings of opportunities to progress and sustain collaboration across the sectors. The Living Lab Approach facilitated the development of a policy and practice guide for child protection to support future work. This has implications for social work practice because the Living Lab Approach enabled a call for a consistent approach to DFV that should be gender sensitive, trauma informed and culturally safe, and collaboration at practitioner, team and organisational levels.

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与儿童保护以及家庭和家庭暴力部门建立合作关系：尝试一种生活实验室方法

尽管在这些实践领域发现了相互竞争的优先事项，但长期以来一直在寻求儿童保护以及家庭暴力和家庭暴力（DFV）部门之间的合作。本文介绍了一种研究合作伙伴关系，旨在通过重点关注工作人员在儿童保护和DFV专家机构之间的交互方式来探索优先事项。使用“生活实验室方法”，启用了十二个焦点小组，其中包括儿童保护和DFV社会工作者（n = 100）。进行了主题分析，结果发现，在尝试建立合作关系时，对DFV的不同理解造成了紧张。当家庭生活中存在其他相交的问题，例如毒品，酒精和精神健康问题时，这些紧张往往会加剧。对土著文化安全以及对文化和语言多样的家庭的宗教和文化影响的了解无意间被搁置了。但是，从业者也对跨部门进步和维持合作的机会形成了共识。生活实验室方法促进了儿童保护政策和实践指南的开发，以支持未来的工作。