Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services
Funding in the 2024-25 ACT Budget will address domestic, family and sexual violence, including coercive control.
The ACT Government is taking further steps to prevent and respond to domestic, family and sexual violence.
Funding in the 2024-25 ACT Budget will address domestic, family and sexual violence, including coercive control.
Throughout the ACT and Australia, incidents of domestic violence continue to increase. Frontline services must be well-equipped to respond.
This Budget includes a coercive control package, to increase understanding and improve responses to this type of domestic violence.
The package will provide training to frontline agencies, such as ACT Policing and the Courts, on identifying and responding to coercive control.
It will also provide for a public education campaign informed by specialist coercive control expertise.
Alongside this investment, a significant funding boost will be provided to frontline response services. These services do vital work to keep women and families safe.
The Domestic Violence Crisis Service, Canberra Rape Crisis Centre, YWCA, Beryl Women Inc, and Women’s Health Matters will all receive funding boosts.
As first points of support for many people experiencing domestic, family and sexual violence, crisis services, refuges and specialist services for men are all vital to address the immediate impact of domestic and family violence and keeping people safe.
This Budget also prioritises behaviour change for perpetrators. Funding for EveryMan will expand their violence prevention programs.
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