Page 4086 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 22 October 2019
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Invitations are extended to all community members who would like to contribute to setting priorities and developing actions. Their experiences, insights and aspirations are fundamental to informing the way forward.
Some early steps that can now start towards addressing the report’s recommendations include supporting recommendation 1 to develop a joint community-government statement that commits to preventing family violence, supporting victims and helping men lead violence-free lives. The Office of the Coordinator-General for Family Safety will provide resources to support the reference group to lead this work with the community. Ensuring that the voices of the community continue to be heard is the intent of recommendation 2 of We don’t shoot our wounded.
Recommendation 3 requests a strategic planning and delivery framework to deliver real change. This will be achieved, firstly, by having the joint statement of commitments between community and government. Additionally, government will report on its progress in delivering its commitments through the agreement.
The family safety hub will be made available to support the community-led testing of ideas and actions, which will assist with meeting recommendations 4 to 10. Our commitment to a whole-of-government domestic and family violence training strategy which will be progressively rolled out to provide intensive training for frontline workers and foundation level training for all staff and managers in the ACT public service will assist in progressing recommendation 11, with more to be done to think about building this capacity for services outside of government.
The development of the outcomes framework for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander agreement and the annual statement of performance by the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs supports the intent of recommendation 12. This will improve the evidence base and quality of evaluations to assess progress in improving the access of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims of family violence to justice and services.
“Nothing about our mob without our mob” is a key message in the Warawarni-gu Guma statement. This statement was delivered by a delegation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women at last year’s Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety national conference. These leaders brought an Indigenous perspective on family violence to the national stage and reinforced what we have heard from our local leaders.
Despite the delayed response to the We don’t shoot our wounded report, there have nonetheless been some important improvements that have occurred over the last few years. We are sharing these to illustrate how the government has been listening and working differently with community to support family-centred and community-led approaches.
The ACT government committed to understanding why there is an over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people in our child protection system. Instead of the usual government-type review or
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