What has been achieved so far?
The Family Violence Protection Act 2008 requires an annual report to be tabled in Parliament on the implementation of the Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework (MARAM Annual Report).
This report is consolidated from portfolio annual reports completed by all government portfolios with responsibility for MARAM-prescribed workforces. The MARAM Annual Report must describe the key areas of progress and work being undertaken to align to MARAM across departments, organisations and funded agencies.
The 2024 MARAM Annual Report is the sixth annual report. Highlights from the 2023-24 reporting period include:
- Completion of the MARAM 5-year Legislative and Evidence reviews in August 2023 and December 2023 respectively.
- Training was launched for professionals who work with adults using family violence in November 2023. No to Violence and Safe and Equal are delivering this training.
- Professionals across the service system completed more than 89,000 MARAM and MARAM-aligned training sessions.
- Practitioners completed 134,000 risk assessments and safety plans using MARAM online tools.
- The Central Information Point received more than 8,000 reports (including 2,097 of the new Brief Reports).
- The information sharing teams managed more than 88,000 information sharing requests.
What is happening now?
The Family Violence Protection Act 2008 requires that the MARAM Annual Report be tabled in Parliament by the sixth sitting day of the calendar year. The report has been approved by Minister Natalie Hutchins and Cabinet. The report is now awaiting tabling in Parliament which must be completed on or before February 20. Following tabling, the report will be published on Vic.gov.au webpages.
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