“More people are recognising their own experience. Successful implementation of measures to raise awareness of and engagement with the issue of family violence could be driving up reporting numbers. The royal commission did not say how many more refuge beds were needed, but Ms Farha said “there is still not enough refuge capacity and there won’t be even when all the core and cluster ones come in”. We need to up our efforts because the pandemic has upped the ante on family violence.” if we want to see faster change we have to ensure we do not see women and children being turned away from housing services and people sitting on long wait lists for various programs. They are having a genuine go at creating a whole-of-systems response to family violence and the impact of that in practice will take time. “We have had transformative systems change the program of reform the government has implemented and overseen is world first and absolute best practice. However, she was one of many experts who said the pace of change was frustratingly slow. The introduction of the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework.Greater information sharing due to legislative change to which “the government has shown phenomenal commitment”.Breaking down of silos in which those responding to family violence operate.Seven more Orange Door hubs will open this year and three next year.Īssociate Professor Fitz-Gibbon said “we need to celebrate everything Victoria has achieved, really transformative reform”. Our job is to turn that into a system being halfway through the 10 years of standing up the reform, we come to that conscious our efforts need to be poured into making this a system.”Įleri Butler, the new chief executive of Family Safety Victoria, said that since May 2018 more than 100,000 people including 40,000 children and young people, had sought help from the Orange Door network. “The royal commission gave us 227 recommendations, it didn’t give us a system. that will dissipate over time as the model settles in,” Ms Williams said. “We always knew that was going to be tough getting specialist family violence, children and family services working together when they’ve always seen each other as competitors. Issues such as the difficult rollout of the Orange Door hubs, which was criticised as rushed and poorly implemented in a 2020 Auditor-General’s report, were to do with “sectors previously hostile to each other working side by side”. Increased family violence reporting rates showed “growing confidence in the system”. “Seeing it linked to discussions around gender equality, which goes to cultural change, will be the heart of long-term success,” Ms Williams said.
“We cannot have a state where women experiencing family violence are being driven into homelessness or remain with the perpetrator,” said Associate Professor Fitz-Gibbon, who is also on the board of the government’s new prevention agency, Respect Victoria. Jenny Smith, Council for Homeless Persons Women and children will go into refuge or a crisis hotel and are then very much at risk of returning to the violent situation. Victorian women are still being hospitalised and arriving at emergency departments as a consequence of family violence at the same rate as they were before the commission, and family violence is still the leading cause of homelessness of women and children. That’s not at all a failure of the government or the royal commission, it’s just the immensity of the problem we’re trying to tackle.” “The fact we can’t easily answer the question ‘Are women safer?’ shows us how much more work there is to do. “We don’t know what the individual impact of the royal commission is on the individual lives of women and children experiencing family violence,” said Kate Fitz-Gibbon, director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre.
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