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The Australian Institute of Family Studies Ethics Committee has approved SFLEX to provide action research evaluation training and support to SFF projects, including clearance to collect and analyse data. As part of this, SFLEX needs to give your project team documentation on ethics. SFLEX may only provide action research support when you make sure your work is ethical by:

Making sure people freely agree to participate in the project

Informing everyone participating in your project about the purpose, nature, risks and benefits of the action research

Having processes in place to make sure information is kept private and confidential. This must be detailed in an information statement

Making sure people can make a complaint if they are unhappy about the research process

Making the research available to everyone involved at the end of the project

Involving as many people as possible in working out what to research on and how this should be done

Involving people in collecting, making sense of and distributing the findings of the research

Making sure that project asks for help from interpreters or other people with local research knowledge if it is needed

Paying people for their time and costs, where possible, but not so much that it induces them to participate

Referring people on to other agencies if the work of the project or the action research upsets them (hopefully it won’t!)

Making sure that projects have policy and procedures for reporting child abuse and neglect should the research lead to a disclosure

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