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This report examines the experiences of children and young people aged between 10 and 17 years who are respondents to family violence intervention orders (FVIOs) and personal safety intervention orders (PSIOs).
This guide is designed for anyone working in child protection, policy, practice, education, healthcare, research, justice or communications. It provides victim and survivor-informed language and definitions that are respectful, inclusive and trauma-informed.
This report aims to improve understanding, awareness and responses to intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) for practitioners working with people who use family violence. IPSV is a distinct tactic of family violence that often co-occurs with other forms of abuse. It is a high-risk indicator of escalating family violence that signals an increased likelihood of severe injury or death for victim survivors.
The research documents evidence from 225 Victorian frontline workers about their experiences of police responses to family violence. It finds that harmful family violence policing practices are extremely frequent and widespread across the state, and that alternative community-based response pathways for victim-survivors are urgently needed. The report details extensive examples of police minimising and dismissing family violence, engaging in racially targeted, sexist and discriminatory police practices, colluding with perpetrators in ways that extend violence and abuse, and misidentifying victim-survivors as perpetrators. It also shows that many workers have witnessed cases of police-perpetrated family violence as well as widespread institutional protection of, and collusion with, offices who are abusive.
This study explores how young victim-survivors in Victoria experience and navigate the crisis support system when escaping family violence. It was designed using a trauma-informed, child-centred research framework and comprised three phases: a desktop mapping of existing services; stakeholder workshops with Victorian practice and service delivery experts; and in-depth interviews with young people aged 16 to 25 years old with lived experience of family violence and seeking help in Victoria. Despite the substantial reform agenda that has been progressed in the nearly ten years since the Royal Commission into Family Violence (RCFV, 2016), the family violence service system in Victoria remains predominantly adult-centric and often fails to recognise young people as victim-survivors in their own right. Critical gaps persist in ensuring young people - particularly unaccompanied minors - can access safe housing, specialist support services, and clear pathways that support their stability, healing and recovery
This study finds victim-survivors generally support electronic monitoring, parole supervision and psychological interventions for sexual offenders, while opinions on public registers and Circles of Support are mixed.
Professor Michael Salter is criminologist and internationally recognised expert on child sexual exploitation and will present recent findings.
A visual guide providing a broad overview of both the Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme (FVISS) and the Child Information Sharing Scheme (CISS), outlining key principles and purposes of information sharing.
A set of practical worksheets designed to support professional development and reflection on applying the FVISS and CISS in practice. These tools can also be used with clients to explain why and how information is shared under the schemes.
