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National Plan (2010 – 2022) brings together the efforts of Governments across Aust. to make a real & sustained reduction in the levels of VAW
It is the first plan to:
• Coordinate across jurisdictions
• Focus strongly on prevention
• Look to building respectful relationships & working to increase gender equality to prevent violence from occurring in the first place
• Hold perpetrators accountable & encourage behaviour change
6 National Outcomes
1. Communities are safe & free from violence
2. Relationships are respectful
3. Indigenous communities are strengthened
4. Services meet the needs of women & children experiencing violence
5. Justice responses are effective
6. Perpetrators stop their violence & are held to account.
Strategies have been developed & prioritised.
Commonwealth, States & Territories allocated responsibility.
Key Features Long term plan – 12 years
Seeks engagement across levels of government, the non-government sector and the community more broadly.
Four three year action plans
1. Building a strong foundation (2010 – 2013)
2. Moving ahead (2013 – 2016)
3. Promising results (2016 - 2019)
4. Turning the corner (2019 – 2022)
Links to other government reforms - housing and homelessness; Mental Health; Closing the Gap; Child Protection
Governance
Council of Australian
Governments (COAG)
Select Council on Women’s Issues
Supported by a Senior Officials Working Group
National Plan Implementation
Panel (NPIP)
Advisory Groups To consider issues and provide advice on key reform areas and priority actions
National Plan Implementation Panel (NPIP)
Key Priority Advisory Groups:
1. Primary Prevention
2. Building the Evidence Base
3. Enhancing Service Delivery
4. Justice
Groups will be attended by Govt & NGOs & will share ideas & exchange information on key priority areas in the National Plan.
National PrioritiesBuilding Primary Prevention
Social Marketing Campaigns – The Line www.theline.gov.au , White Ribbon events
Respectful Relationship Educational Programs within schools targeting young people especially boys
Community based primary prevention, including through sporting organisations e.g. funding of community & sporting orgs across the country to speak out against violence.
National Priorities
Service Delivery Reform e.g.:
Establishment of 1800RESPECT national telephone & online counselling service
‘Safe at Home’ initiatives in some States
Child Aware Approaches
Improving services delivery for women with disabilities
Undertaking effective risk assessment
National Priorities
Strengthening Justice Responses e.g.:
Amended legislation to strengthen responses for victims of DV
Research into perpetrator interventions
Family Law Act amendments
National DV Order Scheme
Supporting several conferences
National Priorities
Building the Evidence Base e.g:
Establishing a new National Centre of Excellence
Develop a National data collection & reporting framework
Repeating the Personal Safety Survey (PSS) & the National Community Attitudes Survey (NCAS) every 4 years across the life of the National Plan.
SA Context
ARTS Governance Arrangements
Chief Executives
Group
Working Groups Prevention
Service Provision Protection
Performance
Violence Against Women Collaborations
Minister for the Status of Women
Alliance Network
Coroners Position
Key
Reporting relationships
ARTS Links
The National Plan
SA’s Strategic Plan Target 18
Obligations under the UN’s Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and uses the CEDAW definition:
“Violence against women means any act of gender based violence that results in, or is likely to result in physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary
deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life”
Building momentum …..
South Australia’s Strategic Plan
Target 18
Significant and sustained reduction in violence
against women.
2009 Don’t Cross the Line Community Education Grants
2010 Prevention activities across specific
sectors – education, hospitality industry
2008 Rape and Sexual Assault reform passed
2008 Don’t Cross the Line Campaign
2009 Domestic Violence
Intervention Orders (Prevention of Abuse)
2009 passed
2006 Family Safety Framework
2009 Domestic and Aboriginal Family Violence Sector
2010 Integrated Response Model
2011 Coroners Position
Community Education Grants
Support for key events - White Ribbon Day
2005First
Phase
2008Law
Reform
2006System
Improvement
2009Prevention
2011Second phase
launched
How? Leadership Partnerships WillingnessCommitment
2012 onwards
Embed change
Identify new ideas/reforms
Strengthen existing partnerships
Strengthen capacity for primary prevention
Develop new partnerships