Safer Families News

Safer Families Centre releases latest evidence at Festival of Ideas

Key research on how to address domestic violence released this month from the Safer Families Centre forms a new bedrock for translating evidence into policy and practice. The Festival of Ideas held at the RACV City Club in Melbourne May 24 brought together an engaged and proactive audience of victim survivors, health service managers, practitioners, policymakers and researchers in a rare opportunity to explore and discuss the latest research and resources to support practitioners to address domestic abuse and family violence. The Honourable Ros Spence, Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence launched the Centre’s latest evidence briefs at the event.
Access the briefs HERE

National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children

By Katie Lamb, Safer Families Research Fellow

The Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence celebrates the release of the National Plan to end Violence against Women and Children 2022-2032.

In line with our Centre’s commitment to ensuring lived experience of victim survivors is central to our work, the National Plan clearly articulates the importance of valuing lived experience. Unlike previous National Plans the current plan outlines a genuine commitment to ensuring victim survivors are at heart of developing effective solutions, in acknowledgement of their detailed understanding and knowledge of  the strengths and weakness of interventions. One of the highlights of the Plan is… Read more here