What is the MARAM Survey?
The MARAM annual survey helps FSV understand the progress of framework organisations and information sharing entities in understanding and using the reforms. This year FSV designed the survey with Principal Strategic Advisers to reduce the number of surveys in the field and gather consistent and comparable data across regions.
There were 1,387 respondents to this year’s survey, a 33% increase from last year. Respondents were from a range of workforces, primarily within the human services and health sectors.
Frontline practitioners and understanding MARAM
Frontline practitioners demonstrated a strong understanding of their MARAM and Information Sharing responsibilities, with many areas improving since 2024:
- More than 94% know how to respond to family violence in their role
- 89% understand how to work with other agencies to assess and manage family violence risk
- 94-98% of respondents reported the training they accessed on MARAM and information sharing was somewhat or very helpful.
Leaders and organisational alignment
More than half (55%) of leaders/policy leads who responded to the survey indicated that organisational alignment to MARAM is a high priority over the next 12 months, while 27% rated it a medium priority. Nearly two thirds reported that their organisation either has a MARAM implementation plan or was adopting one provided by their funded department.
Roadblocks to alignment, information sharing and collaboration
Consistent with results from previous years, both frontline and leader/policy lead respondents pointed to lack of staff time and high workloads as the biggest barriers to implementing MARAM.
The most common barrier to information sharing was delays in receiving information under the schemes (24%), followed by a lack of cross sector understanding (17%).
Most respondents were confident to collaborate with other practitioners from across the service systems (52% confident, 39% very confident). The most common barrier to collaboration was referrals not being accepted or length of waiting lists.
What is happening now?
Results from the 2025 survey will be used to inform work by departments to support funded agencies across Victoria with MARAM implementation.
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