Baptcare is a community organisation in Victoria that provides a range of services to vulnerable adults, families and children, including kinship care. Baptcare has become concerned about staff’s observations of family violence and abuse aimed at kinship carers and children in care perpetrated by children’s close family members during the placement. Baptcare proposed this research to gain a better understanding of how family violence directed towards the kinship care placements were impacting children and their kinship carers. http://www.baptcare.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/19584/BC0857-RESEARCH-Nightmare-FamilyViolenceKinshipCareVIC-A4-44pp-FA-3.pdf