Page 2207 - Week 06 - Thursday, 6 June 2019
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From the 2018-19 Domestic Violence Prevention Council’s extraordinary meeting on the needs of children and young people affected by domestic and family violence and sexual violence, we heard that children and young people witnessing and experiencing domestic and family violence have special needs and are impacted differently by domestic and family violence than the adults around them. But our current service system and policy responses are not adequately informed by the needs and rights of children and young people.
To ensure that children and young people feature at the heart of service design and delivery responses going forward, the ACT government is working across directorates to integrate and improve interventions and to improve data collection and monitoring through a coordinated government response to the Domestic Violence Prevention Council’s extraordinary meeting in 2018.
The final report also advised that the needs, experiences and desires of children and young people need to be better understood. This is why a new project has commenced, led by the family safety hub, in conjunction with the ACT Children and Young People Commissioner. This project is engaging with children and young people to gain their insights and to equip the sector to meet and better support their needs.
The safer families package has created more capacity and significantly driven system reform. As new issues and priorities emerge, the safer families package will continue to direct collective efforts to keep families safe and reduce and prevent domestic and family violence. I present the following paper:
Annual Statement 2019—Ministerial statement, 6 June 2019.
I move:
That the Assembly take note of the paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Alexander Maconochie Centre—report of a review of a critical incident—government response
Ministerial statement
MR RATTENBURY (Kurrajong—Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Minister for Corrections and Justice Health, Minister for Justice, Consumer Affairs and Road Safety and Minister for Mental Health) (11.38): I welcome the Inspector of Correctional Services report of a review of Correctional Services The Care and Management of Remandees at the Alexander Maconochie Centre 2018, which was tabled in the Assembly on 20 February this year.
The report considered how remanded detainees are being managed in the current circumstances of the Alexander Maconochie Centre. It makes 39 findings that identify strengths and areas for improvement to lead sustainable change towards best practice
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