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(3) Does the Coordinator General of the Family Safety Branch have access to Legal Aid data relating to domestic and family and sexual violence, including the number of matters for which representation was provided (by gender disaggregation, age of complainant, level of ability).
(4) Does the Coordinator General of the Family Safety Branch have access to data from the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to the numbers of domestic and family and sexual violence matters, including how far they proceed though the criminal justice system and if they do not proceed and why they do not proceed.
(5) Does the Coordinator General of the Family Safety Branch have access to data from support services such as the Domestic Violence Crisis Centre, Canberra Rape Crisis Centre and Victim Support Services ACT and other community service providers on the number of domestic and family and sexual violence related contacts and clients.
(6) What is the capacity of the Coordinator General of the Family Safety Branch to produce timely and comprehensive data about the incidence of family violence in the ACT, including consolidated data, bringing together data from both civil and criminal matters to expose the reality in the ACT and provide an ability to compare with other jurisdictions.
Ms Berry: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
Response to questions 1 – 5.
The Coordinator-General for Family Safety has access to publicly available data from:
- the ACT Magistrates Court regarding the numbers of applications for Family Violence Orders (FVOs) including Interim Orders,
- Legal Aid relating to domestic and family and sexual violence, including advice, duty and grant services,
- the Director of Public Prosecutions relating to family violence matters and sexual offence matters which were commenced, completed and discontinued in the Magistrates, Children’s and Supreme Court.
The Coordinator-General for Family Safety has access to data from ACT Policing on family violence (FV), and is provided with regular reports on:
- FV incidents reported,
- FV related offences reported (noting that there are many FV incidents where an offence is not found to have occurred),
- persons lodged in custody that were FV related,
- number of after-hours FVOs applied for by police and number granted
- number of strangulation-related arrests and charges in FV matters.
Disaggregated data has not been sought by the Coordinator-General for Family Safety to date.
The Coordinator-General for Family Safety has regular access to data from:
- the Domestic Violence Crisis Service,
- Canberra Rape Crisis Centre,
- Victim Support ACT and
- other community service providers on the number of domestic and family and sexual violence related contacts and clients.
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