Page 812 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 9 March 2016
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jurisdictions, directorates and agencies,, because that is what will ensure that the best interests of our most vulnerable children and young people remain the paramount consideration.
We would also like to make sure Mr Glanfield’s report and its recommendations in full are made publicly available by the last sitting day in May. We would like the ACT government to provide their response to the recommendations along with indicative time frames to the Assembly by the last sitting day in June. With respect to the extraordinary meeting of the Domestic Violence Prevention Council, the motion calls on the government to immediately put into place any possible improvements in relation to information sharing that have arisen from that April 2015 meeting—nearly a year ago.
I reiterate the opposition’s support for Mr Glanfield’s review and once again congratulate the government on their swift action in implementing this review. What we are asking for here today is to slightly expand the scope of that review and put in place immediately any recommendations the government can from last year’s extraordinary meeting of the DV prevention council. These are things that can be done very quickly, and I hope the government will support my motion today.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Deputy Chief Minister, Attorney-General, Minister for Capital Metro, Minister for Health, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for the Environment and Climate Change) (10.19): I am pleased to respond to this motion today on behalf of the government. I would like, at the outset, to state the government’s commitment to reducing the incidence of domestic and family violence in our community and to restate the government’s commitment to implementing the strategy outlined in our ACT prevention of violence against women and children strategy 2011-2017.
There are a series of implementation plans that back the government strategy to tackle domestic and family violence in our community. The second implementation plan provides a whole-of-government framework for responding to domestic and family violence that reflects our commitments as part of a national strategy to tackle the scourge of violence in our homes across the nation. Our commitments as a government include funding for family and domestic violence services and support, legislative reform in relation to the national domestic violence order scheme, and improving the coordination and integration of government and non-government services and supports.
In addition, this government has acted swiftly to improve coordination across government when it comes to our response to domestic and family violence. In May last year, the government appointed the Coordinator-General for Domestic and Family Violence, the Deputy Director-General of my portfolio, the Justice and Community Safety Directorate. The coordinator-general is tasked with coordinating all domestic and family violence prevention initiatives within the ACT.
We now have as a result of that a reference group working with the coordinator-general, which includes deputy directors-general of the Education and Training, Health, Community Services, Chief Minister and Treasury directorates,
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