What are the Family Violence Capability Frameworks and why are they being reviewed?
The Family Violence Prevention and Response Capability Frameworks provide the foundational skill set required to both deliver prevention of family violence and violence against women initiatives and respond to all forms of family violence.
The review is intended to reflect the capability uplift required by reforms and learnings undertaken since the framework’s release, including capturing new evidence and best practice, whilst also seeking to establish an implementation approach that clarifies and increases their utility across the workforce. The review will consider the alignment between the prevention and response frameworks, recognising that prevention and response work is distinct but complementary.
What has been achieved so far?
In November 2023, a draft of the revised Response Capability Framework was circulated to the Capability Framework's Working Group and ‘critical friends’ for feedback. Centre for Workforce Excellence (CWE) are in the process of integrating this feedback into the draft with the support of the Working Group and Safe and Equal.
A conceptual framework for the prevention and response capability frameworks has been developed, which will be tested with stakeholders in the coming month. This will then inform the final structure of response, inform the prevention framework structure and importantly the links between the two.
Family violence capability frameworks
Frameworks that describe the knowledge and skills needed to respond to and prevent family violence. Relevant for specialist and universal services.
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