Page 2346 - Week 07 - Thursday, 27 August 2020
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The Supplier will be required to:
1 develop a consultation or engagement strategy to be agreed by JACS and the Coordinator-General for Family Safety;
2 engage with key stakeholders in the ACT to address the scope of issues outlined below;
3 prepare an interim report to be agreed by JACS and the Coordinator-General prior to circulation with stakeholders;
4 consult with stakeholders on the interim report to:
a. confirm the accuracy of information;
b. comment on report analysis and findings; and
c. provide any other comments; and
5 provide a final report summarising the result of consultation, with key findings and/or recommendations.
Scope of issues
The Supplier will focus on:
1 the implementation of the Family Violence Act, including the nature and extent of any cultural or systemic change as a result of the changes made by the Act;
2 whether Police Issued Safety Notices (PISN) (as recommended in recommendation 9-1 of the ALRC Report) should be implemented in the ACT;
3 other potential reforms which could support preventing and responding effectively to family violence, including but not limited to:
a. does there need to be any change to the way that support services manage partner contact, facilitated by that support service participating in perpetrator programs, when there is an existing family violence order in place prohibiting contact?;
b. should the existing sexual offence provisions relating to protected confidences be extended to limit disclosure of:
i. counselling communications in family violence matters; or
ii. claims for financial assistance compensation;
c. should there be legislative amendment to prevent the subpoena of victim impact statements, and the subsequent cross-examination of victims based on the content of the victim impact statement?;
d. should the presumption of bail in section 9F of the Bail Act 1991 be amended to a lower threshold than the existing one of being satisfied that the person poses ‘no danger to a protected person while released on bail’?;
e. should there be legislative amendment to remove or place limitations on the option of the court’s discretion to impose suspended sentences for breaching suspended sentence orders as recommended in the Victims of Crime Commissioner’s Issues paper published 22 November 2017?;
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