Professor Leah Bromfield

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Episode 147

Professor Leah Bromfield

Professor Leah Bromfield is the 2025 South Australian of the Year. 

Leah has devoted her life to establishing practical, evidence-based solutions to child abuse and neglect – important but challenging work. 

Currently she is the director and chair of child protection at the Australian Centre for Child Protection. Her achievements and accolades are almost endless. She developed the first evidence-based analysis of child protection practice frameworks. She informed improvements including the development of a new framework in South Australia and was on the team which advocated for – and got – the first National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children in 2007. 

Over two decades, Leah has risen to become one of the most trusted researchers in the field. Her calls for transformation and radical redesign have led to world-first insights and contributed to significant changes in our understanding of, and responses to, child abuse and neglect.  

She’s a champion of exploring unconventional approaches and interrogating assumptions to break the cycle of abuse.  

Leah has played a pivotal role in numerous other reforms, including her work as Professorial Fellow to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. 

Her leadership and expertise continue to inspire transformative approaches to child protection not just in this country, but around the world.

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