Why are the Family Violence Capability Frameworks being reviewed?
The Family Violence Prevention and Response Capability Frameworks outline the foundational skill set required to both deliver prevention of family violence and gender-based violence initiatives and respond to all forms of family violence.
The review is intended to reflect the capability uplift and learnings undertaken since the framework’s original 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 is happening now?
The Centre for Workforce Excellence (CWE) are in the final stages of drafting the Response Capability Framework, with a final draft to be completed end of this year, with early 2025 release planned.
CWE are continuing work on the revision of the Prevention Capability Framework in collaboration with Safe and Equal and the Prevention workforce. The revised Prevention Capability Framework is also due for release mid-2025.
A new capability framework is also being developed to support capability uplift for the specialist sexual assault workforce. The Responding to Sexual Violence and Harmful Sexual Behaviours Capability Framework is being developed in partnership with Sexual Assault Services Victoria, and due for release end 2025.
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