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National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022
The vision of the 12-year National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022
(National Plan) is that all women and their children live free from violence in safe communities.
The National Plan brings together all Australian state and territory governments to drive lasting change and provides the framework for a coordinated national approach to reducing violence against women and their children. It is supported by an understanding that all Australian governments need to take action and work alongside each other to achieve the primary goals of the National Plan which are to:
- reduce violence against women and their children
- improve how governments work together
- increase support for women and their children
- create innovative and targeted ways to bring about change.
“By working together and challenging the attitudes and behaviours that allow violence to occur, all Australian governments are saying a very loud “no” to violence” (National Plan 2012).
The Tasmanian Government is working collaboratively with the Commonwealth and other state and territory governments to achieve the following six national outcomes by 2022:
- communities are safe and free from violence
- relationships are respectful
- Indigenous communities are strengthened
- services meet the needs of women and their children experiencing violence
- justice responses are effective
- perpetrators stop their violence and are held to account.
The delivery of the six national outcomes will be directed by a series of four, three-year National Action Plans to be implemented over 12 years. Each state and territory will develop and deliver their own implementation plans with outcomes that align to those of the National Action Plans.
There have been two National Actions Plans to date: Building a Strong Foundation 2010-2013 and the Second Action Plan Moving Ahead 2013-2016.
Tasmanian Implementation Plan: Building a Strong Foundation 2010-2013
The first Tasmanian Implementation Plan: - Building Strong Foundation 2010 -2013 (first Implementation Plan) established a strong platform for Tasmania to achieve the objectives of the National Action Plan 2010-2013. The first Implementation Plan identified Tasmania’s strategic actions for the long-term and prioritised actions that were required in the short-term.
The first Implementation Plan also outlined how the Tasmanian Government would achieve the agreed national priorities:
- Building Primary Prevention Capacity
- Enhancing Service Delivery
- Strengthening Justice Responses
- Building the Evidence Base.
Recognising the attitudinal and cultural changes that are required to reduce violence against women and children will occur overtime, an action of the Implementation Plan was the development of Taking Action: Tasmania’s Primary Prevention Strategy to Reduce Violence Against Women and Children 2012-2022 (Taking Action).
Taking Action was informed by consultation undertaken with the Tasmanian community and delivers a public health approach for the coordination of primary prevention initiatives to address violence against women and children across Tasmanian government and community service sectors. Taking Action will continue to be updated and implemented over the life of the National Plan. Tasmanian Implementation Plan: Moving Ahead 2013 – 2016.
The second Tasmania Implementation Plan: Moving Ahead 2013-2016 (second Implementation Plan) continues the vision for prevention of violence against women and their children. It considers what worked well in the delivery of the first Implementation Plan Building a Strong Foundation and ongoing and new priorities for the years 2013-2016.
It continues the strong focus on primary prevention building knowledge and skills to address community attitudes and behaviours towards violence against women and their children. Taking Action will continue to be implemented along with other strategies to address the priorities for the second National Action Plan which are:
- driving whole of community action to prevent violence
- understanding diverse experiences of violence
- supporting innovative services and integrated systems
- improving perpetrator interventions
- continuing to build the evidence base.
The second Implementation Plan has identified strategies to achieve the national priorities as including:
- understanding diverse experiences of violence – working with specific communities including Aboriginal people, people with disabilities and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) people
- education, counselling and support for children – continuing relationship education programs in schools
- raising awareness of the incidence and impacts of family violence – working with White Ribbon and the development of a public safety audit toolkit, both actions arising from Taking Action
- perpetrator programs – contributing to the development of national outcome standards for perpetrator programs
- improving our research and evidence base – by continuing support for Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) and the developing of a biennial Women and Girls in Tasmania Report.
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