8. Comprehensive risk management and safety planning

Corresponding MARAM responsibility levels: comprehensive.

Knowledge indicator

Understand the impact of family violence on a victim survivor to inform risk management options. This includes for children and young people.

- Lead multi-agency collaboration efforts to ensure a coordinated and holistic approach to risk management and safety planning.
  - MARAM responsibility levels: comprehensive
- Assess and respond to dynamic family violence risk. Ensure safety strategies and plans respond to the current risk factors and level of risk.
  - MARAM responsibility levels: comprehensive
- Integrate culturally responsive practices into risk management and safety planning. Use these to address the experiences and needs of Aboriginal people.
  - MARAM responsibility levels: comprehensive
- Develop and put in place coordinated risk management practices that consider the strengths and needs of victim survivors. Use these to actively address the effects of structural oppression and discrimination.
  - MARAM responsibility levels: comprehensive
- If appropriate, use advanced trauma-informed interventions to promote wellbeing and resilience building.
  - MARAM responsibility levels: comprehensive

- Use advanced risk management techniques to develop and put in place effective safety plans tailored to victim survivors.
  - MARAM responsibility levels: comprehensive
- In risk management and safety planning, holistically respond to children and young people in ways that address their emotional safety, psychological safety, physical safety and wellbeing.
  - MARAM responsibility levels: comprehensive
- Apply the ‘person in their context’ approach to consider the person using family violence’s circumstances. Use this work out appropriate risk management actions.
  - MARAM responsibility levels: comprehensive
- Undertake a coordinated risk management strategies that consider the young person’s circumstances, age, developmental stage, cultural needs and wellbeing.
- MARAM responsibility levels: comprehensive

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Updated 12 December 2025