Children Experiencing Family Violence: Working Together to Develop a Better Service Response (2009)

Children Experiencing Family Violence: Working Together to Develop a Better Service Response (Eastern Metropolitan Regional Family Violence Partnership 2009) was a report commissioned and managed by the Children's Needs and Mapping Working Group, a working group of the Eastern Regional Family Violence Executive Committee (now Eastern Metropolitan Regional Family Violence Partnership). Service providers in the EMR noted an increased number of children presenting to services with various difficulties, and the common experience of exposure to significant and/or chronic family violence. The complex nature of the service system made a co-ordinated service response for children and young people very difficult. This project addresses these issues by identifying current responses in the EMR, and identifying gaps and recommendations to improve the system.