Commencing in September 2018, the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework (MARAM) is the Victorian government's approved family violence and risk assessment and management framework. This report covers the period from September 2018 to 30 June 2019.

This is a report on monitoring of the Victorian Government’s implementation of family violence reforms as at 1 November 2019. The specific priority areas selected were Specialist Family Violence Courts, the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework, The Orange Door, perpetrator accountability and the voices of victim survivors.

This project provides a picture of families in the child protection experiencing domestic and family violence issues, using a small sample of retrospective cases from a single region of Queensland and identifies opportunities and evidence designed to facilitate and improve collaboration and information sharing.

To help inform the development of longer-term support services in communities throughout New Zealand, MSD contracted The Backbone Collective to find out from people who identify as female, via an online survey, what kind of longer-term support would have helped them get safe, recover and rebuild their lives after experiencing violence and abuse.

This e-brief investigates the issue of Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) in the context of housing and homelessness.