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