Barnafrid is a national knowledge centre with the mission to collect and disseminate knowledge about violence and other forms of abuse against children. It is a government assignment that was awarded to Linköping University in 2015 and belongs to the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV) at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus US, in Linköping.Barnafrid is aimed at professionals who, in their work, meet children and young people who have been subjected to violence and other abuse, but also at professionals at, for example, government agencies. The goal of the knowledge centre is to contribute to improved preventive work and to develop effective interventions to protect and support children who have been subjected to violence and other abuse.