CORONAVIRUS — COVID-19 FAMILY AND DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE TASKFORCE
1001. Hon JACQUI BOYDELL to the Leader of the House
representing the Minister for Prevention of Family and Domestic Violence:
My question without notice is asked on behalf of Hon Colin
Holt, who is away on urgent parliamentary business.
I refer to the Department of Communities' ''COVID-19
Family and Domestic Violence Communique'' summary update of 24 June
2020.
(1) Please
provide a breakdown of any organisations that received part of the $3.1 million
of allocated funding, including how much each organisation received.
(2) Do each of
these organisations have to justify how they spend the funding; and, if yes,
please provide details and time lines for reporting?
(3) When will the next communique be issued so that
the community sector knows what actions the government has taken to
date?
(4) What
changes have been made in response to incidents of family and domestic
violence, service delivery and victim support since the inception of the task
force in April?
Hon SUE ELLERY replied:
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the
question.
(1) I table the attached report. Organisations may be
listed multiple times if they have multiple grant agreements.
[See paper 4315.]
(2) Yes. To meet the reporting and acquittal time
frames of Western Australia's national partnership agreement
with the commonwealth, organisations are required to report on the achievements
and key activities undertaken against the objectives and outcomes identified in
their grant agreements.
(3) The Department of Communities will continue to
provide targeted communications to relevant organisations.
(4) The following
responses to family and domestic violence have been implemented since the
inception of the task force: a successful communications strategy, developed in
collaboration with the family and domestic violence sector and high-profile Western
Australians to advocate that violence is never okay and let people know help is
available; a $28 million investment through the WA recovery plan comprising
$8.6 million to employ mobile outreach workers statewide to provide support for
women and children experiencing family and
domestic violence, $6.7 million for Family Violence Response Teams that support
victims following a police call-out and $123 000 for a program to support women
who are residing at family and domestic violence refuges to gain employment
skills, access career training or retraining and attend a range of workshops
and short courses to support employment pathways; and the allocation of
commonwealth funding under the National Partnership Agreement on COVID-19
Domestic and Family Violence Responses to bolster frontline family and domestic
violence services during the COVID-19 pandemic and the recovery period.