Speaking at today's forum will be former children's magistrate Barbara Holborow OAM; founding director of the National Child Protection Alliance, emeritus professor Dr Freda Briggs AO; barrister Maurice Kriss ASM; Dr John Clarke; convenor of Women Everywhere Advocating Violence Elimination, deputy president of the Australian Council of Social Services and president of the National Council for Single Mothers and their Children, Dr Elspeth McInnes AO; chair of Adults Surviving Child Abuse, Dr Cathy Kezelman; member of the Sydney Children's Hospital child protection counselling service, Dr Paul Morgan; and deputy chair of the NSW Premier's Council for Preventing Violence against Women, Dr Lesley Laing.