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Information sharing and MARAM reforms

Access updated resources and the Child Link system and complete training to build your understanding of the reforms.

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The information sharing schemes and Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) reforms enable early childhood services to share information to promote the wellbeing or safety of children and identify and respond to family violence.

In response to feedback from stakeholders, we have updated our information sharing and family violence reforms guidance and tools. This will support services to share information confidently, safely and appropriately, improving children’s wellbeing and safety.

The resources will also support services to identify and respond to family violence in a safe and consistent way. Resources include:

  • new chapters to help service leaders, all staff and nominated staff meet their service’s legislated MARAM responsibilities
  • new downloadable templates and tools, including tools that help all staff to identify family violence and nominated service staff to screen for family violence and make basic safety plans
  • revised chapters on implementing the information sharing schemes.

The tools support the work service staff already do to respond to family violence.

MARAM nominated staff and training

To help meet your service’s legislated MARAM responsibilities, we recommend service leaders identify up to 3 MARAM nominated staff (depending on the size of the service) who will be responsible for family violence screening, safety planning and making referrals and reports.

We recommend MARAM nominated staff attend new training, outlined below, to understand and action their MARAM responsibilities.

Training details

Dates: training sessions are available until the end of Term 2, 2026

Time: 4 hours. Training hours count towards professional learning for Victorian Institute of Teaching registration

Platform: face-to-face and online options are available, along with specific Early Childhood-only sessions

Cost: free. Casual relief teacher reimbursement is available. Instructions to claim reimbursement are available upon training registration.

For more information and to register for training, refer to Non-accredited MARAM training (Education workforces) on the Training for the information sharing and MARAM reforms webpage.

The Child Information Sharing Scheme(opens in a new window) (CISS) makes it easier for education professionals to request and share information with other organisations to promote the wellbeing and safety of children.

The Child Link system is a digital tool that displays information about a child and their participation in key early childhood and education services. Child Link is a key enabler of CISS.

Both Child Link and CISS are designed to enhance the valuable work early childhood services already do to promote children’s wellbeing and safety by supporting professionals to see the full picture. Together, CISS and Child Link can support you to:

  • make more informed decisions about the wellbeing, safety, and support needs of a child in your service
  • better identify risks and vulnerabilities and provide support to prevent any escalation of harm
  • encourage cross-service collaboration to facilitate more holistic support around a child
  • provide support earlier by linking information from across schools and services
  • facilitate smoother transitions between early childhood and education services by responding to gaps in participation.

For more information about Child Link and how to access it, refer to the Child Link : A Guide for Early Childhood Providers.

Find out more

To access training on information sharing for education workforces, refer to Information sharing training (Education workforces) on the Training for the information sharing and MARAM reforms webpage.

For further enquiries, contact the Information Sharing and MARAM enquiry line:

For more information on CISS and Child Link, refer to:

For further enquiries, contact the Whole of Victorian Government Information Sharing and MARAM Enquiry Line:

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