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Since the Royal Commission into Family Violence, Victoria has led the way in adopting a whole-of-population approach and establishing a breadth of activities to prevent violence against women. The Third Rolling Action Plan provides an important opportunity to consolidate and build on the actions from the two previous actions plans to sustain long-term change and a community-wide approach to prevention.
In this submission, Our Watch highlights the opportunities for the Victorian Government to sustain and strengthen its commitments to prevention in the Third Rolling Action Plan with focused commitments within Government and the public service to:
- maintain political leadership
- continue to build on its whole-of-government prevention policy machinery
- secure governance, coordination and accountability mechanisms
- grow a dedicated prevention workforce
- build the prevention evidence base
- invest in multifaceted and multipronged prevention initiatives.
We strongly encourage the Victorian Government to maintain an explicit focus on primary prevention in the next phase of family violence reforms, ensure ongoing investment in prevention and include concrete actions across settings. This focus and investment will support Victorian progress towards its target of a state free from family violence and gender inequality, as well as its obligations to work towards ending violence in a generation under the National Plan and Closing the Gap.
Submission in response to the Victorian Government’s Family Violence Reform Rolling Action Plan 2024-2026 consultation
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